Moth Breeders 1963

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Harlow, Essex.

M/S of a little girl cutting leaves off a tree. She puts the leaves inside a plastic container - food for caterpillars. Various shots of different kinds of caterpillars - good C/Us. M/S of a woman, possibly the girl's mother taking the lid off the container and taking out a moth....

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Data

Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
3357
Sort Number:
CP 457
Time in/Out:
01:41:07:00 / 01:42:40:00
Canister:
CP 457
Film ID:
243.07
Issue Date:
29/09/1963

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