| THE MAN WHO EATS GRASS 68-year-old Mr Branson from Clapham eats grass to stay fit and healthy. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7214 |
| Catalog #: | 191428 | |
| Clip Number: | 191428-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | PT 532 | |
| Timecode: | 01:35:35 - 01:37:24 | |
| Location: | Clapham, London. | |
| Year Shot: | 1940 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DOMESTIC LIFE: Meals & Cooking FOOD: Unusual HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Diet / Nutrition LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Merseyside, Liverpool | |
| Description: | THE MAN WHO EATS GRASS 68-year-old Mr Branson from Clapham eats grass to stay fit and healthy. Clapham, London. 68-year-old retired solicitor Mr Branson (Branston) sits at a desk using a typewriter. We then see him jogging around a park (probably Clapham Common), leaping over a fence and riding his bicycle along a road (windows of houses in background have white air-raid precaution tape). He stops beside a bowling green to pick up some grass from a man with a lawn mower. Commentator says Mr Branson claims that grass gives all the essentials to efficient nutrition. Mr Branson washes and dries the grass at home, then mixes it with mangel-wurzel, currants, oats and sugar and eats the mixture. Brief library shot of a horse walking along a country lane pulling a heavy load of hay - commentator says "That's what he'd call a real meal!" | |
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