Countryside Beauties AKA Countryside Beauties Restored (1924)

Everywhere. Title: “COUNTRYSIDE BEAUTIES RESTORED by removal of advertising signs“. M/S of a misty field, ponies wander about in front of a rickety old barn. Pan to roadside advertisements on posts stuck into the edge of the field, three men use pick axes and shovels to remove the unsightly signs, as they finish another man watching (the farmer?) tips his hat in gratitude. The sign nearest the camera is promoting ’Shell’. 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), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be