Super Glass! 1940

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Titles read: "SUPER GLASS!"

Location of events unknown.

Various shots show the process of making glass for reflecting telescope mirrors. We see the mirror for "one of the world's greatest telescopes" being made. Several shots of molten / liquid glass being poured into and out of a...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
15803
Sort Number:
PT 561
Time in/Out:
01:01:50:00 / 01:03:04:00
Canister:
PT 561
Film ID:
1212.02
Issue Date:
31/12/1940

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