News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Around The Town

Issue

Issue No.

88

Date Released

4 Aug 1921

Length of issue (in feet)

750

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Yesterday and to-day No.1
• 2. In the Studio of the Hon. Neville Lytton
• 3. A few moments with Alice Brady.
• 4. Pheasant Rearing. Taken at the East Essex Game Farm
• 5. Some Novelty Sunshades -
• 6. Proverb Competition: This Cartoon No.10 represents a well-known Proverb, and is the last of the Competition.
• 7. A Short dance duet from "Puss Puss"
• 8. The latest fashionable pet. The Mongoose

Story

Story No. within this Issue

8 / 8

Summary

NoS synopsis: ‘The latest fashionable pet. The Mongoose. These animals are natives of Ceylon, are very docile and make interesting companions _' with a cartoon of a mongoose in the background. Close up of a mongoose on a lead standing on a table in a garden. It stands on its hind legs to eat from a human hand. The mongoose drinks from a crystal ash tray. Extreme close up of the mongoose’s face.
End title: Close up of a blotter and pen case on a desk. The pen comes out of its case, dips in a pot of ink and writes "The End" on the blotter.

Keywords

Animals

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   28 July 1921, p33.
The Bioscope   11 August 1921, p52.
Viewing Copy - bfi   Used for Synopsis

Credits:

Production Co.

Around the Town Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

80

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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