Plasterers 1953

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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...

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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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