Tropical Birds Beware - Other Colour Pics… 1962

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Great Birckhill, Buckinghamshire

M/S of three colourful tropical birds eating. Cut to a C/U of face of Captain John Lee-Hudson feeding one of the birds. Bird eats from his hand.

Mr Lee-Hudson has collected over 1000 South American birds and presented them to the public in his "foreign...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
3055
Sort Number:
CP 404
Time in/Out:
01:13:24:00 / 01:15:14:00
Canister:
CP 404
Film ID:
195.04
Issue Date:
24/09/1962

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