| SIGNATURES Item about signatures and autograph books. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7064 |
| Catalog #: | 510888 | |
| Clip Number: | 510888-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NSP 368 | |
| Timecode: | 01:03:55 - 01:06:12 | |
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1943 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | COMMUNICATIONS: Writing Systems, Handwriting HISTORICAL RECREATIONS: Age of Exploration HOBBIES: Collecting LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England | |
| Description: | SIGNATURES Item about signatures and autograph books. M/S of man in suit smoking cigarette. He signs an autograph and hands it over to a young school boy. The boy reads the signature and says "....I though it was Jimmy Cagney". He rips out the page and throws it away in disgust. C/U of hand opening autograph book. A message inside reads: "BY HOOK OR BY CROOK I'LL BE THE LAST IN THE BOOK". C/U of word scribbled out and new message underneath. C/U of hand writing the name Joe Noble on piece of paper. The paper is folded before the ink in dry. It is reopened and now resembles a beetle. Re-enactment of Queen Ysabella of Spain selling her jewels so that Christopher Columbus would have enough money to build a fleet of ships. C/Us flicking through he pages of Joe Noble's autograph book which includes names such as Edward Terry, Mark Sheridan and Charles Coburn. M/S of piece of paper from the British Museum which includes the signatures of Bismarck, Napoleon and Charles Dickens. Re-enactment story about the young lordship who found the devils footprints on his doorstep on Christmas morning in 1855. Diagrammatical shots of the hoof prints in the snow and a C/U of the prints. Intertitle reads: "Adolf Hitler". The letter move around and jumble up to form a new word "Heil Rat". | |
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