Making Balloons Godalming 1938

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Item title reads - Godalming.

Surrey.

L/S of ladies in a big hangar making balloon barrages. Men cut the aluminium coated fabric and women gum and stitch it together, M/S as they make the seams airtight. M/S as they pull the balloon out and lay it on the floor before folding it over,...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
18165
Sort Number:
38/087
Time in/Out:
01:25:46:00 / 01:26:39:00
Canister:
38/87
Film ID:
987.30
Issue Date:
31/10/1938

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