Measure For Measure (1937)
Titles read: MEASURE FOR MEASURE Location of events unknown London As commentator talks of the law insisting on accurate measure when anything liquid is bought or sold, we see a man filling his car petrol tank from a pump; milk being stirred by machinery in a vat and milk bottles coming off a rotating machine; a measure of scotch being taken from a bottle in a bar and a pint of beer being pulled. At the London Science Museum we see several measuring vessels from ancient Egyptian times through to the late 19th century a woman dressed as Cleopatra looks at them. Commentator says All this raises the question what s in a pint . M, S of a man in a flat cap, drinking a pint he turns to the camera and says in a cockney geezer voice Hops if you re lucky . FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT
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