Toys Mender Aka Toys To Mend (1940)

Toys to mend. Thanet, Kent. A man walks from village to village mending toys. He blows his horn and the children follow him to a spot at the roadside where he mends their broken toys. C/U’s of the happy smiling children as he repairs dolls etc. He is described as a ’fairy in trousers’, ’a carpenter with a liking for children’. 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 viewed on the British Pathé website.