Camouflage 1940

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Camouflage.

Location of events unknown.

M/S of a hat painted with camouflage colours. The woman wearing it turns around. M/S as she walks up the street in a camouflaged raincoat. A little girl decorates her dolls' house with camouflage. Various shots of a house which has striped canvas...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
42851
Sort Number:
NSP 206
Time in/Out:
01:33:42:00 / 01:34:27:00
Canister:
NSP 206
Film ID:
1286.23
Issue Date:
14/03/1940

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Categories
Lifestyle & Culture
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World War II Doll's House

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