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At the local ice rink, Iris tries out her grandpa’s old skates while a quizzical Cathon looks on. Have you ever wondered what skates looked like before metalblades were developed?
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The Great List of Everything | Season 2 | The Skates, Francis Papillon, provided by the National Film Board of Canada