Rags For Salvage 1942

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Title reads: "Official Government Film" - Short trailer film

RAGS FOR SALVAGE

Puppet animation. The voice-over is entirely in rhyme
"A is for army hut... B is for bandaging... C is for camouflage... D is for our duty..." (there are drawings to depict the alphabet too)
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Data

Cataloguer:
Virginia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
84038
Sort Number:
42/103 (TRAILERS)
Time in/Out:
01:42:04:00 / 01:43:23:00
Canister:
42/103 (TRAILERS)
Film ID:
2911.13
Issue Date:
24/12/1942

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