Art Of Smelling 1959

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Whitbread & Co. works in London.

C/U of a man filing a piece of metal which is balanced on the rim of a large barrel. Narrator states that it is nice to know that there are some jobs that no machine could ever do. John Porter is a "smeller". Various shots of John and his colleagues who work...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
2494
Sort Number:
CP 241
Time in/Out:
01:33:22:00 / 01:34:48:00
Canister:
CP 241
Film ID:
93.14
Issue Date:
27/07/1959

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