Growing And Eating AKA Mushrooms 1966

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Worthing, West Sussex.

In a laboratory we see various shots of scientists separating and germinating mushroom spores to obtain seeds for growers. A bottle of seeds labelled 'Darlington's Grain Spawn, Worthing'.

C/Us of a bed of mushrooms growing. At a mushroom packing factory, women...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
4107
Sort Number:
CP 614
Time in/Out:
01:51:13:00 / 01:55:27:00
Canister:
CP 614
Film ID:
379.09
Issue Date:
29/04/1966

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