Non Stoppers (1928)
No title. C, U of a man blowing bubbles. He holds a glass of bubble mixture and blows the bubbles with the aid of a little pipe. Then there s the club go on until his beard tripped him M, S of a man swinging clubs. Through the use of dissolves the man appears to get older and older his body droops and he pretends to be really tired. He eventually has white hair and a long beard quite funny M, S of the Flying Scotsman locomotive outside a railway station. Dissolve into a C, U of the engine with driver and another worker standing on the footplate. In London, every Circus has a nonstop whirlabout of its High angle shot of a busy traffic intersection (Piccadilly Circus ) trolley buses and cars. Like the Dentist, the man with the nonstop drill bores us to M, S of a group of men working on the road. A pneumatic drill is being used to break up the road, three other men stand by with shovels and a pickaxe. All the men wear flat caps. And persevering Pri
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