The Man Who Eats Grass (1940)

Titles read: THE MAN WHO EATS GRASS Clapham, London. 68yearold retired solicitor Mr Branson (Branston) sits at a desk using a typewriter. We then see him jogging around a park (probably Clapham Common), leaping over a fence and riding his bicycle along a road (windows of houses in background have white airraid precaution tape). He stops beside a bowling green to pick up some grass from a man with a lawn mower. Commentator says Mr Branson claims that grass gives all the essentials to efficient nutrition. Mr Branson washes and dries the grass at home, then mixes it with mangelwurzel, currants, oats and sugar and eats the mixture yeuch Brief library shot of a horse walking along a country lane pulling a heavy load of hay commentator says That s what he d call a real meal 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 EN