Tropical Shell Shapers 1966

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Brighton, Sussex.

A look at the ways exotic shells can be used to make 'attractive' household objects.

C/U on a box of tropical shells, pan to box of large 'melon' shells, pan long more boxes of exotic shells. A man in rubber gloves picks out two shells and dips them in a vat of liquid...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
3965
Sort Number:
CP 591
Time in/Out:
01:28:10:00 / 01:30:37:00
Canister:
CP 591
Film ID:
363.04
Issue Date:
21/04/1966

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