The First Hundred Years! 1939

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Titles read: "THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS!"

Various locations of events.

Various shots of the first photograph ever taken and the camera that took it, made by William Henry Fox Talbot, then of the camera made by Frenchman Louis Daguerre. Brief shots of early photographs. A huge telescope...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
40770
Sort Number:
PT 468
Time in/Out:
01:45:53:00 / 01:48:27:00
Canister:
PT 468
Film ID:
1184.24
Issue Date:
17/03/1939

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