The House That Jack Built 1958

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Bordon, Hampshire.

English eccentric Jack Punter has decorated his garden like a crazy grotto. Various shots of his excellent concrete sculptures and strange bits and pieces. Jack makes a concrete and stone crocodile destined to be a garden ornament. He picks up one he has made earlier and...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1353
Sort Number:
CP 206
Time in/Out:
01:25:32:00 / 01:27:06:00
Canister:
CP 206
Film ID:
83.07
Issue Date:
08/12/1958

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