Kiss, Cocky! 1932

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Description

(Pathetone main titles.)

Titles read: '"Kiss, Cocky!" Meet a queer customer from Sydney, Australia, who looks like being kissed with an outsize in spanners.'

Sydney, Australia.

Various shots of a parrot or cockatoo called Cocky Brown, who lives in a Sydney petrol station ("Kiss,...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37315
Sort Number:
PT 134
Time in/Out:
01:47:35:00 / 01:49:51:00
Canister:
PT 134
Film ID:
1064.23
Issue Date:
17/10/1932

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