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Plastic Skeletons 1965
Description
Redhill, Surrey.
Man smoking a pipe walks towards the camera carrying a skeleton. We are at a factory that makes plastic bones and skeletons. They also make "lifelike rubbery brains and artificial livers and kidneys" the narrator tells us. Various shots of rubber being pressed into moulds,...
Data
- Time in/Out:
- 01:36:06:00 / 01:38:06:00
- Canister:
- CP 531
- Film ID:
- 319.04
- Issue Date:
- 25/02/1965
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- Science & Technology Trade & Industry
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- Plastic Bridges, Tunnels, Stations and Factories
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