Painters Set Up Strangest World-Record 1949

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For title reads: "Painters Set Up Strangest World-Record"

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America (USA). Painters are attempting a speed record to paint a house for a disabled soldier.

LV GV Painters lined up outside house. CU Paint being poured from can to pot. SV Painters...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
45618
Sort Number:
49/036
Time in/Out:
01:51:40:00 / 01:52:50:00
Canister:
49/36
Film ID:
1401.35
Issue Date:
05/05/1949

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