Leslie Mitchell Conducts the News Pageant of Movietone. Sports Reported by Alan Howland: Bicycle Oddities

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
526A
Date Released
6 Jul 1939
Date submitted
3 Jul 1939
Date submitted
4 Jul 1939
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 8
Section Title
Leslie Mitchell Conducts the News Pageant of Movietone. Sports Reported by Alan Howland
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Freak Bicycles. DESCRIPTION: Crazy ‘bikes’ on show in Chicago. SHOTLIST: A demonstration of strange bikes. A family bike with mother using her sowing machine as it goes along, the bed-post bike and the elastic bike.
Keywords
Vehicles; Curiosities; Domestic life
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
36955
Credits:
Commentator
Alan Howland
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
28
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Leslie Mitchell Conducts the News Pageant of Movietone. Sports Reported by Alan Howland: Bicycle Oddities', British Movietone News Issue No. 526A, 6 Jul 1939. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/10050 (Accessed 10 Jun 2025)