Wool Fashions In Australia - Aborigine Girl… 1961

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Location: Sydney, Australia

Story of wool fashions in Australia modelled by Lola Briggs, an Aborigine model.

Title reads: "Native girl becomes glamour model"

GV. at night, street scene in Sydney, showing the Trocadero. Various shots, fashions being modelled, some by Lola Briggs...

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Cataloguer:
Matt
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
86212
Sort Number:
UN 3472 G
Time in/Out:
01:20:01:00 / 01:21:43:00
Canister:
UN 3472 G
Film ID:
3020.10
Issue Date:
1961

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