Artist Issue Title - Drawing The Line 1939

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L/S's of the garden of the artist Edward Swann's large house in a London suburb. Various good shots of Swann sketching a landscape with charcoal in his garden.

Data

Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
42771
Sort Number:
NSP 191
Time in/Out:
01:11:40:00 / 01:12:54:00
Canister:
NSP 191
Film ID:
1282.07
Issue Date:
30/11/1939

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