Heigh-Ho Forty Years Ago! 1935

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Titles read: 'Heigh-Ho FORTY YEARS AGO!'.

Berlin (?), Germany.

Several shots of an old man turning the handle on a machine that is claimed to be the world's first cinematograph projector, invented by the brothers Skladanowski just over 40 years before.

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
52262
Sort Number:
PSP 920
Time in/Out:
01:40:31:00 / 01:41:27:00
Canister:
PSP 920
Film ID:
1652.20
Issue Date:
21/11/1935

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