Fairground
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 4
- Summary
- NoS Summary - Scenes from an amusement park, showing attractions in both in slow-motion and twice normal speed.
- Researcher Comments
- Commentary: Life practically stands still at the fairground when our slow-motion cameras show how people enjoy the torment of switchbacks, water-chutes, helter-skelters. All the fun of the fair - first at a quarter its real speed and then twice as dizzily fast as it ever happens in life.
- Keywords
- Entertainment and leisure
- Locations
- England
- Written sources
- British Pathe online database
Pathe Pictorial Issue Sheets Used for commentary
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Wilfrid Thomas
- Length of story (in feet)
- 99
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How to cite this record
'Fairground', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 403, 17 Sep 1962. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/121272 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)