Art With A Past 1969

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Ancient beads are used to make unique pieces of jewellery. Artists Irena Corwin travels to Turkey, Morocco and China to research traditional jewellery and to buy raw material at bazaars.

Various shots of Irena at work and some still photographs of women of the above named countries wearing...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
4540
Sort Number:
CP 732
Time in/Out:
01:56:35:00 / 01:59:05:00
Canister:
CP 732
Film ID:
471.08
Issue Date:
02/01/1969

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British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
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