Pathe's Beauty Contest 1920

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No title. L/S of a woman in a white dress posing in the garden of the house. C/U of the same woman who turns to face the camera and smiles. She then turns her head to face the other direction and looks down.

Another woman with longer hair perches on the wall beside some steps in the same garden....

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Data

Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
14763
Sort Number:
Unknown
Time in/Out:
01:54:10:00 / 01:56:27:00
Canister:
EP 066
Film ID:
858.20
Issue Date:
1920

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