Home movies of Dr. Bolton. Part 2.

Date:
1935
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Home movies of Dr. Bolton. Part 2. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The first short film here appears to be a spoof about the medical profession although it is rather hard to follow. Firstly we see a man pull up in a car, then cut to a man in fake beard, moustache, glasses on a stage, gesticulating. Shots follow of a group of possibly onlookers getting progressively younger from old man to small baby. We then see the same man in white laboratory clothes conducting some kind of experiments in a laboratory. The film ends when the man seems to have produced a tablet which he stirs into a glass of water and drinks. After this there is a short silent colour film of what appears to be a kind of parade of people (children and adults) who walk past the camera smiling; they have party hats on. This is followed by a brief film of small children playing in a sandpit.

Publication/Creation

1935.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (12:21 mins.) : silent, black and white and colour sections.

Duration

00:12:21

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Notes

The material comes from the family of Dr. R. H. Bolton who worked at the Peckham Pioneer Health Centre in its early years.
In spidery writing on the first can; 'Residents Play Film, Guys 1935', "My Discovery of Rejuvenin" by Prof Sneiro (?) Pompholyx (?)

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