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Film score
Composition date: ca. 1937
Genre: Incidental music
Performing forces:

Picc, cl in A - perc (sd) - 2 pf

Notes

Film produced for the GPO Film Unit, directed by Norman McLaren (1914-1987). It concerns the manufacture of the London telephone directory, and was released in 1937. Apart from the brief extract from sequence G of The king's stamp (May 1935) there are three other musical sequences in the film.

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