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1940 QUIRKY: Radio duo do their bit on the home food front
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1:18Now PlayingDate: 15th April 1940
Location: ELGIN AVENUE, LONDON, ENGLAND
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: Gert's a Daisy in the Kitchen
ENGLAND: London: Elgin Avenue:
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Long view Cooking Class including Gert & Daisy.
CU Doris Waters pan to Elsie.
Long view Miss Collier invites Gert & Daisy to come up.
Semi view Gert & Daisy up to table.
Semi CU & semi view Elsie & Doris talking.
Sound Effects. Gert & Daisy talk about cookery classes & gag about cooking in a casserole and says that she would like to cook Hitler's goose for a tanner.
Personalities - Performers; Women; Food, Drink and Cooking; Public Information Material; Florence Elsie Waters; Doris Waters; Great Britain; Cookery programmes;
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