Ernesto Jaconelli - Wonder Boy Accordionist (1933)

No titles. Ernesto Jaconelli - Wonder Boy Accordionist. (This version probably from Pathetone Parade compilation). Pathe Studio, London. Ronald Frankau (wearing huge false moustache) introduces Ernesto Jaconelli - Wonder Boy Accordionist - after telling a joke about a husband confronting another man with accusations of ’stealing the affections’ of his wife. Man apologises when he realises the other is homosexual! Ernesto Jaconelli (15 years old) plays ’Light Cavalry’ (aka ’Lightning Cavalry’) on the accordion sitting on podium surrounded by young children. Number is intercut with close shots of cute kids listening to him and short shots of United States Army Cavalry Roughriders galloping on their horses. This is duplicate of item in Pathe Sound Pictorial PSP 807 - see separate record for details. 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. FO
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