Caught By The Camera No. 56 1935

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Titles read: "Caught by the Camera".

Location of events unknown - probably United States of America.

Various shots of two chimpanzees doing tricks with a trainer - doing somersaults off a seesaw, walking on stilts, skipping with a rope, jumping over some hurdles (trainer has to talk...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
39105
Sort Number:
PT 291
Time in/Out:
01:42:12:00 / 01:43:58:00
Canister:
PT 291
Film ID:
1122.21
Issue Date:
21/10/1935

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