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Plasterers 1953
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London
Various shots of Norman Shand-Kydd and Victor Smart looking at a design on a theatre ceiling. We then see 76-year-old Henry Hanwell making a plaster cast of the section which will go to replace the bomb-damaged stalls ceiling of The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Henry brushes plaster...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 43580
- Sort Number:
- NP 449
- Time in/Out:
- 01:28:07:00 / 01:29:44:00
- Canister:
- NP 449
- Film ID:
- 1317.17
- Issue Date:
- 20/04/1953
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