Auto Mannequins 1950

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Automatic mannequins.

Grosvenor Court Hotel, London.

C/U dress showing flowers at the waist. Camera pans up to head of lifelike plastic model mannequin, the model is rotating to show off the dress. M/S of man adjusting the mechanisms. C/U man assembling model. C/U hand turning on switch,...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
34406
Sort Number:
NP 281
Time in/Out:
01:16:41:00 / 01:17:46:00
Canister:
NP 281
Film ID:
1275.11
Issue Date:
30/01/1950

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