Blitz On Bugs 1944

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Description

Title reads: "Blitz on Bugs".

Ministry of Information Government official.

Cartoon.

Plant growing, pest with binoculars, pests move in like an army attacking, by air, land and underground, Pest control (insect spray) wakes up and squirts the plant to kill the pests. Written...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Agnew
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
84246
Sort Number:
44/046 (TRAILERS)
Time in/Out:
01:04:47:00 / 01:06:10:00
Canister:
44/46 (TRAILERS)
Film ID:
2919.04
Issue Date:
08/06/1944

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