Paperweights 1956

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M/S and C/U of Frank Hill sitting at a workbench and placing numerous tiny tubes of coloured glass into some small round stone or wooden containers. Commentator tells us Frank is keeping alive the art of making milliaflore paperweights at a glass works in Wealdstone, London.

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1985
Sort Number:
CP 065
Time in/Out:
01:50:38:00 / 01:52:40:00
Canister:
CP 065
Film ID:
39.21
Issue Date:
26/03/1956

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