Pottery Animals 1956

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Soho, London.

Potter's Studio where 2 artists are making the latest fashion in animal ornaments. C/U shots of two of the pottery animals - a bull and a hippopotamus. C/U shots of potter John Virando taking a lump of clay and throwing his next object which is a tortoise on the potter's wheel....

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Cataloguer:
Carol
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
2033
Sort Number:
CP 078
Time in/Out:
01:27:42:00 / 01:30:33:00
Canister:
CP 078
Film ID:
43.14
Issue Date:
25/06/1956

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