The Smallest And The Largest 1932

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Full titles read: "THE SMALLEST AND THE LARGEST."

Intertitle reads: "Meet the world's smallest electric motor."

C/U of tiny electric motor with propeller next to a one penny coin. L/S of the "worlds largest motor engine". The narrator...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
59439
Sort Number:
PT 136
Time in/Out:
01:48:18:00 / 01:49:59:00
Canister:
PT 136
Film ID:
1062.20
Issue Date:
31/10/1932

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