Precision Models 1959

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Steyning, West Sussex.

C/U shots of the blue prints, or scale drawings, of a model car, evidently an Alfa Romeo. Dividers come into shot, followed by the wooden body of a model car, which is measured. Hands work on the model with a small knife. M/S Rex Hays at work, as he compares the model...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Margaret
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1378
Sort Number:
CP 214
Time in/Out:
01:30:17:00 / 01:33:05:00
Canister:
CP 214
Film ID:
85.24
Issue Date:
02/02/1959

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