Bud Flanagan Becomes Editor Of Pathe News For One Reel (1946)

Bud Flanagan becomes editor of Pathe News for one reel. Pathe Studios, London C/U of comedian Bud Flanagan in teddy bear furry coat and battered straw hat, operating a decrepit camera. He announces to camera he is the editor of this Gazette issue! At the circus. M/S of Flanagan bantering with clowns, he is squirted with a soda syphon (siphon) and receives a custard pie in his face. C/U of office door, Bud’s name is written on glass. Seated at his editors desk in his office, Bud answers the phone and cracks a joke. Various library shots from 1920s of fire fighting exercises, bicycle racing at Brooklands, biplanes, archery, parachutists, election campaign, crowds in streets. All clips are played at wrong speed for comic effect. Bud provides comical commentary to clips. Various shots of comedians Richard Hearne, Douglas Byng and Arthur Riscoe wearing angel wings and performing their “flying Heavenly workmen“ sketch. Library shots of Edwardian and 1920s swimsuit parades. Bud at his desk