| CYRIL FLETCHER Comedian Cyril Fletcher and his wife Betty Astell farm to help the food supply. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7058 |
| Catalog #: | 182377 | |
| Clip Number: | 182377-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NSP 331 | |
| Timecode: | 01:11:08 - 01:13:33 | |
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1942 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT: Comedy FARMING: Misc FOOD: Rationing/Shortages LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England WORLD WAR TWO, HOMEFRONT: Rationing & Shortages | |
| Description: | CYRIL FLETCHER Comedian Cyril Fletcher and his wife Betty Astell farm to help the food supply. L/S of the Fletchers' cottage. The Pathe reporter comes to the door and is greeted by Cyril's wife Betty Astell. She takes him to Cyril who is pushing a wheelbarrow. They chat and he says he is doing a bit of farming to help Britain's food supply but he is not a proper farmer. M/S of sheep in a field. He strokes a rabbit saying it is next Sunday's dinner. Betty feeds the chickens and Cyril shows us the potato patch. He pays tribute to the real farmers in Britain and we see a montage of hay, cows, wheat etc. on a working farm. Cyril then impersonates a comic yokel character called George Wurzel, Betty asks him his views on farming but he would rather talk about his fat girlfriend. | |
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