Cinetopicalities In Brief No. 80 (1939)
Titles read: CINETOPICALITIES IN BRIEF. Various locations of events. At the Solway Firth in Scotland we see a woman using a selfservice petrol pump. She attaches a long hose from the pump to her car, then puts a shilling in a slot and turns a handle to fill up her tank. Instructions for the Automatic Petrol Instrument are on a board beside it. In South Africa we see a smartlydressed woman sitting on a settee. She undoes the zip of her handbag and a tiny bush baby peeks out, then leaps onto a lampshade. Another little bush baby appears from the bag and joins the first one on a lighting wire they are extremely cute One of them scampers over the woman s shoulders. She manages to hold onto the frisky pair for a short while so we can see them in C, U. In London ( ) we see artist Stanley Birchett painting designs on gas mask boxes. He is working on one for Adolf Hitler, showing a simple caricature of the Fuhrer beside a Nazisaluting hand and a nose (so it looks like someone is thumbing t
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