Wonder Drug 1955

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Folkestone, Kent.

M/S of three people wearing white protective uniforms. C/U of a woman adjusting the glasses on the head of another person. The woman inspects the uniforms of a line of girls to make sure they are ready for work in the sterile room of the Folkestone plant manufacturing "the...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1184
Sort Number:
CP 049
Time in/Out:
01:33:04:00 / 01:35:43:00
Canister:
CP 049
Film ID:
37.16
Issue Date:
05/12/1955

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