Comic images - British Pathé

Comic Images

A collection of footage both amusing and baffling. Includes nudists, motorised rollerskates, and wrestling vicars. Footage in colour, B&W, mute, and sound.

: Cinetopicalities In Brief No. 19 (1938); Czech schoolgirls dance wearing gas masks, an ancient tradition in Austria and a plague of grasshoppers in Mexico.

: Pagham's Pram Race (1954); Funny stuff at a pram race where adults dress as babies and drink pints of beer.

: Overweight! (1933); An obese man is subjected to various bizarre exercise regimes - quite funny stuff.

: Lions! (1932); Fantastic footage of a man being torn limb to limb by lions. (A dummy we think!)

: Girl Across Road; A girl is thrown across a busy road - one way to beat the traffic.

: Channel 99 - Reel 2 (1963); Fantastically funny film - chimps make a news film about aviation.

: Channel 99 - Reel 1 (1963); Fantastically funny film - chimps make a news film about aviation.

: Brighter Golf! (1932); Quirky golf story including a man playing golf wearing a suit of armour.

: Boys Will Be Boxers (1928); Young boys learn to box - cute and funny item.

: Picture Curiosities (1920); Compilation of stunt footage and "curiosities" - unusual people, Hollywood extras etc.

: Queer Playmates (1933); Children ride on the back of an alligator and then two alligators roll down a slide into a pool of water.

: A Monkey Melodrama (1931); Two chimpanzees fool around with camera equipment.

: Police Pantomime In Salford (1937); Light hearted item about policemen dressing up in drag for pantomime.

: How They Make The Pudding; Homeless boys make Xmas pudding and end up having a flour fight - great fun!

: Wrestling Parson (1963); Brilliant story featuring a wrestling vicar giving as good as he gets.

: Water Walker - No Relation To Johnny (1923); New invention which facilitates walking on water - small inflatable boat shoes.

: Slimming The Weigh Away! (1929); Fabulous film of overweight policemen being vibrated in slimming belts!

: Slimming Beds (1968); People move up and down on hinged exercise beds to lose weight - looks very funny!

: Shake! (1929); Great footage of slimming machines - group of chorus girls use electric vibrating belt devices.

: A Weighty Problem (1933); A group of overweight men and women are seen being weighed, exercising and running.

: A Novel Grand National (1927); Crazy scenes showing a race between a car and a horse - even over jumps!

: A Chicago Blizzard (1938); People of Chicago slip and slid about on icy pavements during a blizzard.

: Fun Fare Out There (1943); British troops having fun between the battles in Tunisia.

: Battle Of St. Columb (1948); Annual hurling match is played in Cornish village.

: Motorised Roller Skates (1962); Funny story showing girl getting a lift from her father who drives motorised roller skates.

: Who Said Golf? AKA Nervo And Knox (1946); The Crazy Gang cause havoc on Ham Manor golf course, Sussex.

: Skeletons (1953); A firm assembles plastic skeletons for medical students. Croydon, London.

: Student Rag (1964); All the fun of the student rag, with pram pushing, tiddlywinks and piano smashing.

: German Military Motorcyclists Give Display (1938); German soldiers do funny balancing tricks on motorcycles.

: False Beards (1962); An item about a wig maker in Marylebone that specialises in making false beards.

: Picette No. 5 - Chimps Champs & Chumps Record A (1948); Compilation of funny stories - performing chimps, making movies, flea circus, tightrope walking etc.

: Through Grandma's Spectacles (1932); Cute film showing what the world looks like to a baby who wears his granny's glasses!

: "Coming Sir" (1929); Waiters race through the streets of Paris in bizarre race, Paris, France.

: Changing The Face Of Things (1932); Very weird item about strange realistic masks.

: Toupee Making In Germany (1969); Slightly comic item of new treatment interweaving hair onto heads of men with thinning hair.

: Spring Cleaning Tussauds (1949); Wax models of famous personalities are given spring clean.

: 8th Congress Of Nudists In Germany (1962); Quirky item from Germany about nudists.

: Picette - No Kidding (1948); Compilation cinemagazine probably made for young audience.

: Picette - Who's Crazy? (1946); Compilation cinemagazine probably made for young audience.

: Picette - The Things They Do (1948); Compilation of quirky stories from New Pictorials, probably aimed at younger audiences.

: Bed Races (1969); Bed racing along streets of Romsey during carnival festivities. Hampshire.