A Trunk Call 1923

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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...

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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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