Titles read: "Stretching things too far! An Australian Police training Cameo - ".
Sydney, Australia.
M/Ss of policemen in training at the Langridge School of Physical Culture, riding on bicycle machines and climbing up ropes. We then see a man who is just below the required height for being a policeman. He lies down on a bench, has a kind of chin strap attached to his head and his feet strapped onto the bench. The operator then turns a handle at the end of the contraption to move the lower end of the bench away from the upper, stretching the man as it does so! The man is apparently 2 inches taller after this treatment.
A much smaller man comes in for the same treatment; he is 5' 3". While turning the wheel on the machine, the operator is distracted by a friend who comes in to chat. When he finally realised he has been stretching the man for quite some time, the man has grown about 2 foot! (Obviously replaced by a taller man while we weren't looking.)
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The Langridge School of Physical Culture featured here was located at 380 George Street, Sydney.
Here's an original photo of it from the outside......
http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/ite
mLarge.aspx?itemID=41677