Cave Women 1929

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Four glamour girls walk towards a man who holds some tilly lamps. They take a lamp each. The girls walk into a tunnel accompanied by the man.

"The history of the caves is lost in antiquity. Certainly their makers dug well and deep." reads an intertitle. Dark shots of the girls walking through...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
40245
Sort Number:
EP 112
Time in/Out:
01:39:38:00 / 01:40:57:00
Canister:
EP 112
Film ID:
1164.24
Issue Date:
29/08/1929

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