Black Out Ideas Issue Title - Black And… 1939

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Note: Location of events unknown.

C/U of a girl wearing the novelty invention of conical shields over her glasses. M/S Girl wearing a semicircular fender that warns her just before she walks into a lamp post.

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Data

Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
42787
Sort Number:
NSP 194
Time in/Out:
01:40:40:00 / 01:40:57:00
Canister:
NSP 194
Film ID:
1282.23
Issue Date:
21/12/1939

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