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Chinese Dresses 1956
Description
Balham, South London.
C/U of a chair with various brightly coloured Chinese silk robes on it; panning left to show a man getting up from beside the clothes and putting on a yellow and blue silk skirt; tilt down slightly to show his feet in Chinese slippers standing on a little mat on the carpet....
Data
- Time in/Out:
- 01:20:04:00 / 01:22:16:00
- Canister:
- CP 055
- Film ID:
- 203.08
- Issue Date:
- 16/01/1956
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