Glass Fabrics 1948

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Glass fabrics - spun glass factory.

Acton, London.

C/U broken glass. M/S as man pours the glass pieces into a revolving drum. M/S sprinkler, C/U revolving belt with glass dropping down. M/S man at furnace, he puts a poker in the fire. C/U of the spun fibres. C/U girl with 'sheet cotton...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
34135
Sort Number:
NP 203
Time in/Out:
01:36:44:00 / 01:39:04:00
Canister:
NP 203
Film ID:
1249.24
Issue Date:
02/08/1948

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