Trailer - Learn To Cook 1942

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Description

Titles read: "MofI GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL".

C/U of a poster on a wall reading "Learn To Cook - The ATS WAAF and WRNS Need You". A group of women look at the poster and discuss it, saying they want a change (from cooking), they can't cook anyway and they want to do something exciting.

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44419
Sort Number:
42/102
Time in/Out:
01:47:13:00 / 01:48:36:00
Canister:
42/102
Film ID:
1346.25
Issue Date:
21/12/1942

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