Safe Issue Title - Bolts And Bars 1938

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Full titles read: "BOLTS AND BARS"

L/S's of people walking down steps to the vaults of the safe deposit boxes in Chancery Lane, London. M/S of time clock attached to one of the safes. Several shots of thousands of safes. L/S's of a man demonstrating how difficult it is to open one of the larger...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
42485
Sort Number:
NSP 140
Time in/Out:
01:49:19:00 / 01:51:15:00
Canister:
NSP 140
Film ID:
1264.26
Issue Date:
01/12/1938

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