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Binoculars Wanted 1940
Description
Full title reads: "BINOCULARS WANTED".
Location unknown.
Various shots of young fashionable women walking along the street, they stop and look through binoculars. Close up shot of a poster - an appeal from Ministry of Supply for binoculars to be used in war. People hand their binoculars...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sanja
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 21290
- Sort Number:
- 40/098
- Time in/Out:
- 01:17:13:00 / 01:18:02:00
- Canister:
- 40/98
- Film ID:
- 1063.14
- Issue Date:
- 04/12/1940
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