Camera Interviews -: Billy Merson

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

357

Date Released

5 Apr 1928

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 7

Section Title

Camera Interviews -

Summary

NoS Summary - Camera Interview with Billy Merson with Hermione Badeley.
British Pathe synopsis: Billy Merson and Hermione Baddeley walk through a park with some children. Billy picks one of the younger children up and kisses and cuddles it. The children stand with their mouths open and Billy puts sweets in their mouths. A little girl stands alone crying. Hermione feeds the children too. Billy plays "Peep-bo!" with a baby in a cot. Inter-title reads: "But supposing this was a permanent family". Shot of Billy with lots of children not looking too happy! He pushes along a pram with five small children inside. We then see Hermione pushing the pram with Billy in it! He is drinking from a baby’s bottle and has a toy rabbit at the opposite end of the pram. Hermione hits him with the rabbit and he cries like a baby.

Keywords

Performing arts

Written sources

The Bioscope 12 April 1928 p28.
Pathe Inventory File Tin No.49
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP049 Used for synopsis
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998) p174.
National Film Archive Catalogue

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