What The Public Wants! Reel 2 Of 4 1933

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Reel 2. Pickles chats to a taxi driver. He likes Afrique. He sings a song at the piano wearing a big white suit and hat, Cossack style. He "blacks up" and does an impression of Paul Robeson singing "Mighty Like a Rose".

Pickles is in a restaurant and chats to the waitress. Billy Mayerl plays...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
73083
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:41:54:00 / 01:50:44:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
1911.14
Issue Date:
1933

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