Testing Nylon Stockings 1956

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Various shots of the model Leslie May walking through Regent's Park. She sits down on a park bench in front of a lake with Monty Skears. Narrator observes that husbands and boyfriends have to spend a fortune keeping their girls supplied with hosiery but that there is a new product which might save them...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
3223
Sort Number:
CP 084
Time in/Out:
01:10:55:00 / 01:13:22:00
Canister:
CP 084
Film ID:
207.06
Issue Date:
06/08/1956

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