Fibre Glass Menagerie 1966

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Skegness, Lincolnshire.

Several C/Us of large animal and human figures in holiday camp theme ride. In a design studio we see artists at work on these figures; making sketches, sticking sheets of fibre glass onto moulds and coating them with polyester resin. A fibre glass figure of an elephant...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
4110
Sort Number:
CP 618
Time in/Out:
01:25:35:00 / 01:28:02:00
Canister:
CP 618
Film ID:
381.03
Issue Date:
27/10/1966

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