Dolls AKA Doll Exhibition 1954

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Park Lane, London.

Various shots taken at a charity exhibition of dolls through the ages to aid the Greater London Fund For The Blind. Women and small girls walk around looking at dolls and automatons (one turns round in circles, the other plays a banjos and sticks its tongue out).

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44567
Sort Number:
NP 519
Time in/Out:
01:53:57:00 / 01:55:11:00
Canister:
NP 519
Film ID:
1353.28
Issue Date:
23/08/1954

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