Ultra Close-Ups Beware - Other Colour Pics… 1956

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Extreme C/U of a round metal disc with a kind of latticework over the top of it; fade out. C/U of a man holding a nail in his fingertips as commentator asks "Did you, to start with, hit this nail on the head?"; the man turns the nail so we see the top of the head, as in the extreme C/U.

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1996
Sort Number:
CP 067
Time in/Out:
01:11:06:00 / 01:12:04:00
Canister:
CP 067
Film ID:
41.06
Issue Date:
09/04/1956

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