The Ones

Out Takes / Cuts From Cp 224 -1 Of 2 - Interplanetary Art + Tv T.V. Camera Helps Building (1959)

Out takes (rushes, cuts) for the stories featured in CP 224

8,000 Kicks! (1939)

Dancer Veronica Evans beats her own record by doing 8,000 high kicks one after the other!

Army Innovations (1965)

Presentation of weird and 'useful' inventions of the British Army.

A Ten Stone Baby! (1935)

Three-year-old Leslie Bowles, a ten-stone baby, plays in a pen while onlookers stare.

Fishing Net Hat Issue Title Is Hands Wanted (1939)

Old fisherman makes hat for young lady from rope and fishing net.

Chick Plumage (1966)

Hats made of poultry feathers on show.

Unidentified Flying Objects (1967)

Unidentified flying objects turn out to be students' hoax. Clevedon, Somerset.

Swim Caps (1957)

Punch hosts swimming caps fashion show. Great show, fantastic designs - wrong audience!

Old And New Master Hairstyles (1957)

René's hair show in O'Hana Galleries - unique display of bizarre hairstyles inspired by famous painters.

Spanish Hair Styles (1955)

Vidal Sassoon hair show in Dorchester hotel - nothing like his famous geometric simplicity.

World's Most Dangerous Sport (1955)

Motorbikes and cars drag skiers to high speed madness.

Out Takes / Cuts From Cp 359 - 1 Of 1 - Cookie Dolls AKA Film Star Dolls And Pentathlon (1961)

Out takes (rushes, cuts) for two stories featured in CP 359

Balloon Jumping (1930)

A man ties himself to an inflated balloon and tries to take to the air.

Out Of The Bottle (1932)

Extracts from a stage show starring Frances Day and Jack Leopold - song and dance routine.

Animal Hypnotist (1941)

Hubert Lee communicates with animals who obey his orders. Sydney, Australia.

Aussie Band And Dance Issue Title Is Swing Time

Australian soldiers' swing band, plus Aboriginal music and traditional dancing.

Hair Research (1957)

Get a free haircut as a guinea-pig in a shampoo research centre.

Beard Research (1959)

Scientists use complex equipment to do research on shaving - unfortunately, no improvement.

Pylon Men (1958)

RAF newsreel issue - various RAF related and home news stories.

Patients V Nurses (1916)

'Cup-Tie' game at a Surrey War Hospital with the patients playing the nurses

8ft Woman! (1927)

Unusual people are featured - a very tall woman and a very large man.

Comic Cricketers Part 1 (1914)

Clown cricket players.

Comic Cricketers Part 1 (1914)

Clown cricket players.

Comic Cricketers Part 1 (1914)

Clown cricket players.

Pagham's Pram Race (1954)

Funny stuff at a pram race where adults dress as babies and drink pints of beer.

Britain's First Beauty Farm (1960)

Women exercising and having treatments at Britain's first Beauty Farm.

Cuts / Out Takes From Cp 370 - Schoolboys' Exhibition, Regalia And Greek Dancers (1962)

Out takes (rushes, cuts) for stories featured in CP 370.

Body Culture (1934)

Good footage of diet and fitness equipment used to give a women better fitness and a great figure.

Bed Races (1969)

Bed racing along streets of Romsey during carnival festivities. Hampshire.

False Beards (1962)

An item about a wig maker in Marylebone that specialises in making false beards.

A New Sport

Cycle-skating is the very latest - good footage of men figure skating with wheels attached to their feet.

Bald Headed Men (1950)

Quirky item about competition for bald men in Germany.

Kalanag - World Famous Magician (1959)

German magician Kalanag performs some of his tricks for camera.

8th Congress Of Nudists In Germany (1962)

Quirky item from Germany about nudists.

Speed Film Reel 4 (1927)

Lots of clips featuring fast boats, cars, trains, greyhounds, rowing teams etc. c. 1927

Caught By The Camera No. 50 (1935)

Stories in this item include the opening of a new cliff top road in Austria and a young women playing the new game of the Buxtrot in Budapest.

Cinetopicalities In Brief No. 22 (1938)

A boy in a home-made diving helmet, a beauty contest at a lido, a woman of 108, and a hydroplane race.

Caught By The Camera No. 48 (1935)

Stories in this item include novelty inventions and a rare white porcupine in the United States of America.

New Life Jacket AKA New Life Jackets Demonstrated In The Thames (1959)

Mark Shaw's new design of life jacket is demonstrated by a schoolgirl jumping in the River Thames.

Slimming The Weigh Away! (1929)

Fabulous film of overweight policemen being vibrated in slimming belts!

Out Takes / Cuts From Cp 385 - Reel 1 Of 2 - Model Cars And Ostrich Farm Record A And B (1962)

Out takes (rushes, cuts) for two stories in CP 385 - MODEL CARS and OSTRICH FARM.

Wrestling Parson (1963)

Brilliant story featuring a wrestling vicar giving as good as he gets.

"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.

German Military Motorcyclists Give Display (1938)

German soldiers do funny balancing tricks on motorcycles.

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.

Who Said Golf? AKA Nervo And Knox (1946)

The Crazy Gang cause havoc on Ham Manor golf course, Sussex.

Motorised Roller Skates (1962)

Funny story showing girl getting a lift from her father who drives motorised roller skates.

Battle Of St. Columb (1948)

Annual hurling match is played in Cornish village.

Fun Fare Out There (1943)

British troops having fun between the battles in Tunisia.

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!

Picette - The Things They Do (1948)

Compilation of quirky stories from New Pictorials, probably aimed at younger audiences.

Picette - Who's Crazy? (1946)

Compilation cinemagazine probably made for young audience.

Spring Cleaning Tussauds (1949)

Wax models of famous personalities are given spring clean.

My Lady's Hat (1960)

Tradition of 'Throwing the Hood' and flowery hats on men in Haxey, Lincolnshire.