Vision - Our Cameraman Sees Things 1932

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"A memory from the past - " L/S of a Roman style building with columns and stone steps. Women wearing old fashioned clothes c1893 are superimposed by a camera trick so that they look like ghosts walking around the old location. M/S of the women gossiping with each other and looking at the building....

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
17483
Sort Number:
EP 243
Time in/Out:
01:00:08:00 / 01:02:42:00
Canister:
EP 243
Film ID:
966.01
Issue Date:
04/08/1932

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