Below The Frost Line 1926

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No title. A story about ice.

Man lights a Bunsen burner underneath a coil of metal. Dissolve into shot of a piece of tubing bent into a zig zag shape. "The heat in this thero-refrigerator produces intense cold!" reads an intertitle. The metal is presumably heated then ice forms on the outside....

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
16612
Sort Number:
EP 129
Time in/Out:
01:49:28:00 / 01:51:08:00
Canister:
EP 129
Film ID:
930.14
Issue Date:

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