Novelty Decorations 1959

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Kingston, Surrey.

M/S Adrian Marchant, looking like a teenager, working with blocks of polystyrene, cutting it with a hot wire. C/U foam being cut. M/S of the workshop for making window dressings, and shop window displays, with C/U of a woman holding a block of foam as she sculpts it. She paints...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Margaret
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1380
Sort Number:
CP 215
Time in/Out:
01:36:22:00 / 01:39:23:00
Canister:
CP 215
Film ID:
85.28
Issue Date:
09/02/1959

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Categories
Entertainment & Humour Trade & Industry
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