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Topical Budget 340-1: The World's Largest Photograph (1918)
 

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Colouring the biggest of the giant British Battle Photographs to be shown at the Grafton Galleries, London, under the direction of the Ministry of Information. Two men, one using a ladder, at work retouching a lifesize photograph of troops and tanks on the Western Front which fills the whole screen. Close shot of man and woman working on the picture. General shot of them at work.