Novelty Watches 1958

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International Watch and Jewellery Fair, London.

M/S of a young woman in bed in the dark, she opens her eyes and presses a button which switches on the lights, there is pink satin draped over the back of the bed, she reaches over to the bedside table where there is an alarm clock which is combined...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1338
Sort Number:
CP 203
Time in/Out:
01:34:24:00 / 01:37:07:00
Canister:
CP 203
Film ID:
81.15
Issue Date:
17/11/1958

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