Making Fireworks - Huddersfield 1938

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Item title reads - Huddersfield.

Making fireworks. West Yorkshire.

L/S of people working in the fireworks factory. M/S as one woman wraps paper around thin sticks. Another works on some big round fireworks. M/S of a man putting the powder into the tubes, various shots of sparklers...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
18168
Sort Number:
38/087
Time in/Out:
01:28:29:00 / 01:29:01:00
Canister:
38/87
Film ID:
987.33
Issue Date:
31/10/1938

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