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A Trunk Call 1923
Description
Item title reads - A Trunk Call. Indarini - the zoo elephant - refuses to "listen in" to her keeper's broadcast orders. London.
M/S of Indarini standing in her pen, she sniffs the ground with her trunk and eats potatoes.
Intertitle - 'You can control battleships and aeroplanes by...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Emma
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Silent
- Media URN:
- 23925
- Sort Number:
- G 1006
- Time in/Out:
- 01:57:01:00 / 01:57:54:00
- Canister:
- G 1006
- Film ID:
- 312.37
- Issue Date:
- 16/08/1923
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