Take Your Time 1936

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Item title reads - Take your time!

An item showing the history of instruments that help us tell the time. M/S night shot of Big Ben from the river Thames. M/S of a big flower clock, M/S of a big compass. M/S of the sun. M/S of a diagram of the sun opposite Greenwich showing how it divides the...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
39536
Sort Number:
PT 333
Time in/Out:
01:45:36:00 / 01:49:17:00
Canister:
PT 333
Film ID:
1136.21
Issue Date:
10/08/1936

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