Coming Up! 1940

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Titles read: "Pathetone Lightens The 'Blackout' with - COMING UP!"

Australia.

Various shots of spores being taken from a large parent mushroom and incubated, then planted in a controlled soil bed and is seen growing in time lapse photography. A girl uncovers a mound of earth where...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
41452
Sort Number:
PT 518
Time in/Out:
01:49:09:00 / 01:50:48:00
Canister:
PT 518
Film ID:
1198.26
Issue Date:
04/03/1940

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