’the Champ!’ (1940)

Titles read: “’THE CHAMP!’ United States of America. M/S of girls making pretzels in a factory. One girl, called ’Pretzel Liz’, makes numerous pretzels on a tray at a snappy pace - she is the Pretzel Champ! M/S of the girl talking to camera; she says she made her first pretzel when she was 14 years old. She now twists 20,000 a day, which is how she holds her world’s championship. She goes on to say she doesn’t feel swell-headed about it, but would challenge any pretzel twister to a race of speed. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT 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),