Chalk Sculpture! 1934

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Titles read: "CHALK SCULPTURE!"

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Various shots of a white-haired, bearded man called Mr William Arthur carving a figure from a small piece of chalk with a penknife outside his house.

At first this head of a girl looks quite rough, but then we fade...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
51905
Sort Number:
PSP 841
Time in/Out:
01:42:21:00 / 01:43:16:00
Canister:
PSP 841
Film ID:
1628.24
Issue Date:
17/05/1934

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