Who! What! Where! (1950-1959)

Titles read: ’Hubbell Television presents - Who! What! Where! [Section of black / leader while theme tune plays.] WHO IS IT?’. Various shots of ballerina Anna Pavlova (1920s) in performance. American commentator invites us to guess who it is. People dance around her while others applaud, then she springs onto a table and dances on points. Cut to footage of playwright George Bernard Shaw walking across his garden with a walking stick. Commentator says “He’s old, but he’s fit!“. Then we see footage of British silent film star Betty Balfour (1920s) in a fur coat, inspecting a group of men with bandy legs. Animated question mark spins around. Brief shots of Pavlova, Shaw and Balfour as commentator reveals the identity of each one. Intertitle: ’What Is It?’. Several shots of Blarney Castle in Eire (Republic of Ireland, Southern Ireland). A man at the top shows two girls the famous Blarney Stone. Cut to footage of yarn being piled into a container and fed through lots of small holes in another p
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