Collinson And Dean (1935)

No titles. Pathe Studio, London. Comedian Ronald Frankau appears and breathes on his top hat then shines it. He introduces the next act of Collinson and Dean, and says he would like to say more but his heart, like the glass in his dressing room, is too full for words. (This is from a later compilation - Pathetone Parade of 1938.) Cut to comedians Collinson and Dean on a set dressed to look like a London street. The older one is dressed in a bowler hat and suit, the younger one in schoolboy uniform and cap. There is a street sign on the wall behind them reading ’Nelson Street’. The older man asks the younger where Nelson Street is, and the younger says he knows where it is but it’s difficult to get there from here. The older one says he has business in Nelson Street because he “travels in gas ovens“. The younger one thinks that must be a bit hot. Then they get into a lot of crosstalk about the schoolboy’s family and the older one gets very exasperated, kicking himself on the leg at one p