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Title: Demonstrating a knife prop
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Coburn, Robert W
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Two men are demonstrating a knife prop in a movie studio prop making warehouse at the Samuel Goldwyn Studios. A sword which appeared to have been thrown, actually pops through the board from behind. A man behind the board demonstrates the device, while the man in front looks at the sword next his arm. The movie studio is not identified. Photograph taken September 13, 1939 by Robert W. Coburn.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00013520
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 9362; A-001-821 4x5
CARL0000019509
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1789
Subject: Samuel Goldwyn Studios
Motion picture studios--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Job shops
Stage props
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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