Out takes (rushes, cuts) for the stories featured in CP 224
Dancer Veronica Evans beats her own record by doing 8,000 high kicks one after the other!
Presentation of weird and 'useful' inventions of the British Army.
Three-year-old Leslie Bowles, a ten-stone baby, plays in a pen while onlookers stare.
Old fisherman makes hat for young lady from rope and fishing net.
Hats made of poultry feathers on show.
Unidentified flying objects turn out to be students' hoax. Clevedon, Somerset.
Punch hosts swimming caps fashion show. Great show, fantastic designs - wrong audience!
René's hair show in O'Hana Galleries - unique display of bizarre hairstyles inspired by famous painters.
Vidal Sassoon hair show in Dorchester hotel - nothing like his famous geometric simplicity.
Motorbikes and cars drag skiers to high speed madness.
Out takes (rushes, cuts) for two stories featured in CP 359
A man ties himself to an inflated balloon and tries to take to the air.
Extracts from a stage show starring Frances Day and Jack Leopold - song and dance routine.
Hubert Lee communicates with animals who obey his orders. Sydney, Australia.
Australian soldiers' swing band, plus Aboriginal music and traditional dancing.
Get a free haircut as a guinea-pig in a shampoo research centre.
Scientists use complex equipment to do research on shaving - unfortunately, no improvement.
RAF newsreel issue - various RAF related and home news stories.
'Cup-Tie' game at a Surrey War Hospital with the patients playing the nurses
Unusual people are featured - a very tall woman and a very large man.
Clown cricket players.
Clown cricket players.
Clown cricket players.
Funny stuff at a pram race where adults dress as babies and drink pints of beer.
Women exercising and having treatments at Britain's first Beauty Farm.
Out takes (rushes, cuts) for stories featured in CP 370.
Good footage of diet and fitness equipment used to give a women better fitness and a great figure.
Bed racing along streets of Romsey during carnival festivities. Hampshire.
An item about a wig maker in Marylebone that specialises in making false beards.
Cycle-skating is the very latest - good footage of men figure skating with wheels attached to their feet.
Quirky item about competition for bald men in Germany.
German magician Kalanag performs some of his tricks for camera.
Quirky item from Germany about nudists.
Lots of clips featuring fast boats, cars, trains, greyhounds, rowing teams etc. c. 1927
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.
A boy in a home-made diving helmet, a beauty contest at a lido, a woman of 108, and a hydroplane race.
Stories in this item include novelty inventions and a rare white porcupine in the United States of America.
Mark Shaw's new design of life jacket is demonstrated by a schoolgirl jumping in the River Thames.
Fabulous film of overweight policemen being vibrated in slimming belts!
Out takes (rushes, cuts) for two stories in CP 385 - MODEL CARS and OSTRICH FARM.
Brilliant story featuring a wrestling vicar giving as good as he gets.
Waiters race through the streets of Paris in bizarre race, Paris, France.
Very weird item about strange realistic masks.
Slightly comic item of new treatment interweaving hair onto heads of men with thinning hair.
German soldiers do funny balancing tricks on motorcycles.
A firm assembles plastic skeletons for medical students. Croydon, London.
All the fun of the student rag, with pram pushing, tiddlywinks and piano smashing.
The Crazy Gang cause havoc on Ham Manor golf course, Sussex.
Funny story showing girl getting a lift from her father who drives motorised roller skates.
Annual hurling match is played in Cornish village.
British troops having fun between the battles in Tunisia.
Compilation of funny stories - performing chimps, making movies, flea circus, tightrope walking etc.
Cute film showing what the world looks like to a baby who wears his granny's glasses!
Compilation of quirky stories from New Pictorials, probably aimed at younger audiences.
Compilation cinemagazine probably made for young audience.
Wax models of famous personalities are given spring clean.
Tradition of 'Throwing the Hood' and flowery hats on men in Haxey, Lincolnshire.