Painted Stockings 1940

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Painted stockings.

Probably filmed at Pathe studios, London.

M/S of stockings draped over a table. A young lady clears the stockings from the table and they are replaced with pots of the special paint to make liquid stockings. C/U as the girl gets the paint, wets her hand and rubs...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
42950
Sort Number:
NSP 221
Time in/Out:
01:47:49:00 / 01:49:02:00
Canister:
NSP 221
Film ID:
1290.28
Issue Date:
27/06/1940

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