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"Hello Girls" Of Chinatown 1929
Description
"Chinatown, San Francisco, has the quaintest Telephone Exchange so far - " reads an intertitle.
Low angle shot of a pagoda style building, the camera pans down to the entrance. Two men stand in the doorway, another man comes out of the building. Interior of the building. Backs of five telephone...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Jenny
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Mute
- Media URN:
- 15064
- Sort Number:
- EP 107
- Time in/Out:
- 01:26:24:00 / 01:27:43:00
- Canister:
- EP 107
- Film ID:
- 884.12
- Issue Date:
- 07/02/1929
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- Exchanges Post-Christ history 1920s sassy humor charming
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