Mink & Minx! 1930

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Filmed at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

"For the first time the mink is being "farmed" in England - and chic coats on four legs are running about here - " M/S of some mink inside a cage. A woman looks into the cage and moves her hand around as if stroking the animals.

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
16541
Sort Number:
EP 198
Time in/Out:
01:48:51:00 / 01:50:41:00
Canister:
EP 198
Film ID:
924.20
Issue Date:
23/10/1930

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