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[…]at the [Kodak Marketing Education Centre in Hemel Hempstead] the need arose for training of film processing technicians operating the VNF-1, or Video News Film Process in the stations of the NTA, Nigerian Television Authority. At that time there was still a lot of 16mm camera film being used to shoo[…]
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