Cinetopicalities In Brief No. 80 (1939)

Titles read: “CINETOPICALITIES IN BRIEF“. Various locations of events. At the Solway Firth in Scotland we see a woman using a self-service petrol pump. She attaches a long hose from the pump to her car, then puts a shilling in a slot and turns a handle to fill up her tank. Instructions for the ’Automatic Petrol Instrument’ are on a board beside it. In South Africa we see a smartly-dressed woman sitting on a settee. She undoes the zip of her handbag and a tiny bush baby peeks out, then leaps onto a lampshade. Another little bush baby appears from the bag and joins the first one on a lighting wire - they are extremely cute! One of them scampers over the woman’s shoulders. She manages to hold onto the frisky pair for a short while so we can see them in C/U. In London (?) we see artist Stanley Birchett painting designs on gas mask boxes. He is working on one for Adolf Hitler, showing a simple caricature of the Fuhrer beside a Nazi-saluting hand and a nose (so it looks like someone is thumbing t