Chinese Dresses 1956

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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....

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
3112
Sort Number:
CP 055
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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