Just A Clock 1933

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Titles read: "Just a clock - but what a clock! Come with us now to Messina, where the famous Bell Tower houses its complicated clock... with life-size moving figures and queer noise effects - ".

Messina, Sicily in Italy.

Various shots of an ornate bell tower in Messina. A golden cockerel...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37673
Sort Number:
PT 195
Time in/Out:
01:29:16:00 / 01:30:15:00
Canister:
PT 195
Film ID:
1092.15
Issue Date:
18/12/1933

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