Hon. Quick Change Artist 1930

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Subtitled: "A brief interruption from Japan."

Introductory intertitle reads: "They have their quick-change folk in old Nippon - here's a gentleman to whom changing into a woman is but a brief breather in his day's work -" M/S of a Japanese man kneeling down on a podium in front of a curtain....

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Data

Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
16505
Sort Number:
EP 194
Time in/Out:
01:16:19:00 / 01:17:42:00
Canister:
EP 194
Film ID:
922.09
Issue Date:
21/08/1930

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