John Tussaud Celebrates His 80th Birthday (1938)

London. M/S of John Tussaud, great grandson of Madame Tussaud, founder of the famous waxwork museum, sitting in a chair, surrounded by some wax heads. Commentator says it is Mr Tussaud’s birthday and asks him how old he is. Tussaud replies “80 years of age, for I was born on the 2nd of May, 1858“. When asked if he’d like to spend a night in the Chamber of Horrors he says “No, at my time of life, the proper place to spend the night is in bed!“ 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. Al