A Glass Wonderland 1940

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Titles read: "A GLASS WONDERLAND".

New York, United States of America.

The curator of the New York Marine Museum is seen studying minute sea or pond organisms through a microscope. He shows them to a glassblower who then models them in glass. Various close ups of the weird and wonderful...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
15715
Sort Number:
PT 542
Time in/Out:
01:13:34:00 / 01:14:55:00
Canister:
PT 542
Film ID:
1206.08
Issue Date:
19/08/1940

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