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Potato And Lock Issue Title How Quaint! 1937
Description
Potato and Lock. Part of HOW QUAINT! issue.
Pathe Studios, London.
Novelty shaped vegetables. Various shots of a potato that had grown around a rusty old padlock buried in the potato field.
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Amelia
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 42201
- Sort Number:
- NSP 089
- Time in/Out:
- 01:01:54:00 / 01:02:08:00
- Canister:
- NSP 89
- Film ID:
- 1248.03
- Issue Date:
- 09/12/1937
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