Paper Furniture 1961

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M/S of a woven circular chair being tested for durability by having a weight repeatedly pushed down on it. Commentator tells us it is made from rolls of paper.

Various shots in a factory in Bromley By Bow, London, as we see the processes involved in making this paper furniture: strips of cellulose...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1750
Sort Number:
CP 329
Time in/Out:
01:22:49:00 / 01:25:32:00
Canister:
CP 329
Film ID:
139.08
Issue Date:
17/04/1961

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