Armchair Cookery

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

233-2

Date Released

12 Feb 1916

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1In Honour of Canadians
2. 2Paris Express Disaster
3. 3Saucy Arethusa’s Captain Married
4. 4Armchair Cookery
5. 5Father Decorates Son

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Mr W Lawton the barrister-chef straps up his right arm and demonstrates how disabled soldiers can cook their own dinners. Preparing an omelette, peeling potatoes, which are cooked on a collapsible gas stove." Lawton, seated at a table fitted with various contraptions, peeling potatoes fitted on a revolving spit, stirring eggs in a clamped basin, and setting up a small collapsible oven on the table and putting a variety of dishes into it to be cooked.

Keywords

Food and cooking; Disabled persons

Length of story (in feet)

67

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Film Archive

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British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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