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1935 QUIRKY: The craziest news items of 1935
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6:49Now PlayingDate: 26th December 1935
Location: Unknown location
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
Gaumont British Ident
SLATE INFORMATION: Crazy Newsreel. A Cocktail of the Loopiest News Items of 1935
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Lively couples dancing
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Plane flies with car attached underneath
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Man flaps wings of "bird plane", does not fly
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Crazy drivers operate automobiles. Public safety announcements warn drivers of cars
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Various shots of dogs. Pekingese dog show, toy dog, dog that says "mama."
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Multiple shots of sailors, admirals kissing girls
USA:
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Scientists test the reaction of how hugs lead to kisses. Funny soundbite - "Nobody but a scientist would need a machine."
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57 couples getting married at the same time. Funny soundbite - "Their friends and relations brought rice to throw but the ceremony lasted so long they ate it."
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Shots of Japanese babies. There is a baby born in Japan every 15 seconds
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Inventions. Self rocking cradles, rocking horses, an air conditioned bed for spinsters
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Multiple shots of "bathing beauties". Funny soundbite - "They make young men old and old men desperate." Woman hits man on head with umbrella. Contortionist poses.
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Fashionable girls on the top of an omnibus
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Firemen with hats riding on bicycles, try to put out fire in a hen house. Women fire fighters on a fire truck. Funny soundbite - "In this town when a man gets lonely he sets fire to the curtains." Men rescue female firefighters from a burning house
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Wild wrestling erupts, and a referee is tackled
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Members of british army singing
SPAIN: Northern Spain
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Bullfight fiesta with dancing. Spectators taunt bull. People in bull costumes taunt camera men. Toreador "kills" the bulls. Matador.
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Cannonball girl. Woman is shot out of cannon. Cannonball man. Man takes cannonballs to the stomach. Circus performers shot from cannons
FRANCE:
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French water tournament, people fall/get pushed in water
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Man waterskiing on head, boat crashes onto shore
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"The human skate" skates headfirst down an incline
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Large room full of "the only turkeys that were not eaten on Christmas Day" say "hip, hip, hooray!"
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