Animal Museum 1965

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Potter's Museum, Bramber, Sussex.

Fabulously crazy scenes of stuffed animals dressed in costumes and posed as humans. A man uses a brush to clean a stuffed squirrel and a stuffed tiny calf.

Various taxidermy scenes are shown including the kittens' wedding, the squirrels' club, kittens'...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
3780
Sort Number:
CP 531
Time in/Out:
01:38:06:00 / 01:40:03:00
Canister:
CP 531
Film ID:
319.05
Issue Date:
25/02/1965

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