Command Performance 1946

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Description

Titles read: "COMMAND PERFORMANCE".

Location of events unknown - Australia?

Various shots of cockatoos doing tricks on a stage before a small audience of children. The birds ride round on a merry-go-round, walk up and down ladders, push a pram and play dead. Australian animal and bird...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
43484
Sort Number:
NP 111
Time in/Out:
01:02:21:00 / 01:04:41:00
Canister:
NP 111
Film ID:
1313.02
Issue Date:
28/10/1946

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