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Losing Their Wool 1940
Description
Full title reads: "Losing Their Wool".
VS of sheep being rounded up on farms in North England.
VS of sheep being sheared with hand clippers. The wool is stacked, women and children help to carry the wool away as it is cut from the sheep.
The fleeces are shown being held up...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Mark
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 20947
- Sort Number:
- 40/056
- Time in/Out:
- 01:47:24:00 / 01:48:09:00
- Canister:
- 40/56
- Film ID:
- 1049.41
- Issue Date:
- 11/07/1940
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