Pathetone Parade Of 1939 Part 2 (1933-1939)

Pathetone Parade of 1939 (Part 2). Compilation of turns - continued. Commentator introduces juggler Stetson, dressed in black tie and evening dress. He juggles top hats on and off his head very quickly to the tune of ’Three Blind Mice’. Some shots show his skill in slow motion. Then Stetson juggles brilliantly with three oblong boxes or bricks - he’s amazing! (Even with some of the ’tapping’ noises out of synch.) The tune playing for this section is a sailor’s hornpipe. (This is probably missing item from PT 273.) Two brief shots of warships at sea as commentator introduces ventriloquist Arthur Prince with his puppet, Jim. We see Arthur, dressed as a naval officer, sitting with Jim (wearing sailor suit) on a set dressed to look like the deck of a ship. The pair carry on a long conversation about things being relative to other things. Arthur tells Jim that a camel is relative to the desert, saying “You know what a camel is?“. Jim replies “It’s a horse with knobs on!“. When asked to describe t
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