Queer House Issue Title - "Hearths Are Trumps" 1940

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Queer house - High Malden.

Kent.

Various shots of a three storey house with towers, chimneys and balconies. The owner, 73 year old Mr Mason, enters his house which has 8 doors. M/S as he stands on his balcony and paints the tower which has a picture of a girl on it. He looks out over...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
42799
Sort Number:
NSP 197
Time in/Out:
01:00:36:00 / 01:01:40:00
Canister:
NSP 197
Film ID:
1284.01
Issue Date:
11/01/1940

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