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| Name | Variety Acts (1934) |
| Video Uploader | Video From British Pathé |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 13-04-2014 14:28:29 |
| Video Discription | Unused / unissued material - no paperwork - dates unclear or unknown. Comic Douglas Byng comes down some steps into a set made to look like a restaurant / club. He performs some impressions of people in a pantomime (some sections are cut out). We see a routine by the comedian on the theme of a Christmas pantomime. Shots of the audience at tables, drinking smoking and chatting. Byng comes on in drag as the "leading lady". He wears a wig and carries a small basket. He sings a song called "Daisy Chain" and curtsies. The band plays, he comes on again dressed as an elderly woman - a pantomime dame. He makes a joke about having played "third raspberry in the fruit scene" and another about how the Baron must have his "Plum Duff". Camp at the time I presume, not just in retrospect. He gets the audience to join in with a song about making a pudding - he waves a rolling pin. An unidentified musician plays a tune on a vibraphone / xylophone. (Jack Simpson?) FILM ID:522.2 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/ British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website. https://www.britishpathe.com/ a3dvlfk4XPw |
| Category | Education |
| Tags | British Pathe | Reuters | 522.20 | entertainemt | UN 0060 N | pantomimes | documentary | comedians | singing | newsreel | bands | footage | Byng | Douglas | BritishPathe |
