Bones For Export 1950

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Description

Bones for export - plastic skeletons.

Croydon, Greater London.

M/S as woman picks plastic skull off shelf, C/U of her face, camera pans down to her polishing the skull on a machine. M/S of man stringing vertebrae on spinal cord. M/S mould, the plastic is taken out and ground on machine...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
34403
Sort Number:
NP 285
Time in/Out:
01:12:06:00 / 01:13:12:00
Canister:
NP 285
Film ID:
1275.08
Issue Date:
27/02/1950

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