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"Time, Please!" 1940
Description
Titles read: 'Pathetone Lightens The 'Blackout' With - "TIME, PLEASE!"'
Rome, Italy.
Various shots of cogs turning in machinery at a telephone exchange. Commentator explains this is the headquarters of Rome's 'speaking clock' and talks about how the machine works. Montage of shots...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 41433
- Sort Number:
- PT 513
- Time in/Out:
- 01:11:59:00 / 01:13:13:00
- Canister:
- PT 513
- Film ID:
- 1198.07
- Issue Date:
- 29/01/1940
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