Kitchen Magic Magician Billy Mccomb Has Fun Doing Tricks In The Kitchen Footage

KITCHEN MAGIC Magician Billy McComb has fun doing tricks in the kitchen.
This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA.	Tape Master:	7164
	Catalog #:	299119
	Clip Number:	299119-1
	Orginal Film:	NP 441
	Timecode:	01:31:37 - 01:35:02
	Location:	Edgware, London
	Year Shot:	1953 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	DOMESTIC LIFE: Unusual ENTERTAINMENT: Magic LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London
	Description:	KITCHEN MAGIC Magician Billy McComb has fun in the kitchen. Edgware, London MS Husband seeing his wife off to work at the door. LS Wife giving final instructions and walking through gate. MS Hus- band closing door walking towards kitchen. MS Husband enters kitchen reads list on table reaches for overall from which springs feather duster. He throws it on the floor puts on overall. Picks up goldfish bowl takes one out and eats it walks over to sink. SCS. Turns on the tap and nothing happens. Handles the pipe and begins to pull out a length of material. CS. Material still coming out. SCS. More material and at the finish he drops it on the floor. MS Picks up saucepan places it on the table out springs large snake he picks up another saucepan. SCS. Moves the lid and pulls out a plucked chicken and bottle of beer. He attempts to pour the beer into a wine glass (crowned top is still on the bottle). Glass begins to fill by itself. CS. He attempts to drink liquid the glass begins to empty. SCS. He picks up jug of milk and cake tin from table. MS Carries it to centre table and begins to pour the milk into the cake tin he turns the cake tin upside down but nothing comes out. SCS. He dries the tin- produces four small glasses of liquid out of the drying cloth. He pours the liquid into the cake tin reaches into the cupboard. MS He picks up bag marked `Self raising flour' from the cupboard. He lets it go and it floats into the air. Next he takes a tin from the cupboard marked `Tea'. He places empty glass in the tin. He withdraws the glass now full of liquid. This liquid he now pours into the cake tin. & CS. CS. Recipe for cake on table reads Milk flour dates pan to his hands as he drops sections of a calender into tin. SLS Hands dropping sections of a calender into tin places lid on cake tin. He removes the lid to reveal finished cake inside. CS. Removing cake from tin and plac- ing it on table. SCS. He reaches for a knife from the cup- board. Attempts to cut cake no success. He reaches for a hacksaw tries again. MS Gives up trying and pushing the cake away he reaches for a loaf of bread and a knife but loaf is made of rubber. He sits looking dejected and tapping his fingers on table. (Orig.Neg.)