Perfect Match 1968

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Perivale and Uxbridge, Middlesex.

Several shots at a factory in Perivale show wallpaper being made; a woman uses a routing machine to etch a design onto a block of sycamore wood; a man uses the block for hand-printing a roll of wallpaper. Some long sheets of garish red and gold wallpaper hang...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
4347
Sort Number:
CP 697
Time in/Out:
01:18:00:00 / 01:21:48:00
Canister:
CP 697
Film ID:
429.09
Issue Date:
02/05/1968

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