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The Mechanical Masters AKA Testing Racquets 1930
Description
Full titles read: "The Mechanical Masters - filmed at Birmingham." (new title) "Old methods of hand-testing racquets, tennis and golf ball are today giving way to machines, diabolically accurate in their action and impressive in their power."
Birmingham, West Midlands.
Various shots...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 36864
- Sort Number:
- PT 039
- Time in/Out:
- 01:30:42:00 / 01:33:47:00
- Canister:
- PT 039
- Film ID:
- 1022.14
- Issue Date:
- 22/12/1930
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