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Leisure Shift Mill Workers 1947
Description
Unused / unissued footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown.
Cuts from newsreel 47/82 - Leisure Shift Mill Workers.
Housewives at Wigan, Lancashire do an evening shift from 6pm to 10pm at the cotton mills.
Shots of Mrs Nellie Smith and another woman at work in...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 64285
- Sort Number:
- UN 1829 B
- Time in/Out:
- 01:34:57:00 / 01:40:56:00
- Canister:
- UN 1829 B
- Film ID:
- 2178.15
- Issue Date:
- 1947
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