Skeleton Staff 1963

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Redhill, Surrey.

A story about a factory which makes plastic skeletons. Various shots of a row of skeletons, we see the manufacturing process where the soft plastic dough is put into a mould cast from genuine bones, pressed together and put in an oven to harden. Various shots as workers paint...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
3298
Sort Number:
CP 422
Time in/Out:
01:50:17:00 / 01:52:51:00
Canister:
CP 422
Film ID:
217.08
Issue Date:
28/01/1963

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