Scrapbook For 1922 - Reel 1 Of 2 (1922)

Full title reads: “Scrapbook For 1922“. Credits read: “The pages turned by Patric Curwen, The narration spoken by John Snagge, Music Director Hal Evans, Film Editor A Milner-Gardner, Written & Produced by Peter Baylis in association with Leslie Baily - Originator of the BBC feature ’Scrapbook’. Thanks to The BBC, BFI, Daily Express, HMV - Recorded at Welwyn Studios.“ Intertitle: “From his knowledge of the past Man plans for the future. Once this knowledge could only be gleaned from the writings of historians. But, with the twentieth century came a new kind of record - the motion picture. To inform the young and to remind the not-so-young, this picture has been made.“ Pan along row of books starting at 1947 and going back in time until it reaches 1922. The book for 1922 is pulled out and laid open. Traffic scenes in city. Shots of driver and conductor on bus. CU man with long beard. CU Oxford Bag trousers. CU milk being served from a pail. Title card from cartoon film - ’Adventures of Felix the Cat’ -
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