Topical Budget: Even The Babies Go On Strike, Willesden (1921)
ProRes digital file Black & White Mute 1921 0:53
Summary: Miss Violet Hopson fails to win over all the infants at Willesden's "Healthiest Baby Show".
Title number: 19775
LSA ID: LSA/26218
Description: A baby show in Willesden allows the Topical Budget team to make topical jokes, linking the uncooperative babies with an ongoing miners’ strike. Babies are shown bawling their eyes and sleeping – despite attempts to poke it awake. The winning baby refuses to look impressed for the camera, the trophy or even Violet Hopson, the Australian-born actress who is on hand to present the prize. Include some exterior scenes of a terraced street in Willesden.
Cast: Violet Hopson
Further information: Topical Budget (1911-1931) was one of three major British newsreels of the silent era, its main rivals being Gaumont Graphic and Pathé Gazette. Produced by William Jeapes' Topical Film Company, its first issue was released in September 1911. Of several newsreels on the market in this early period, by the middle of the First World War only three survived: Topical, Pathé and Gaumont.
Keywords: Brent; Willesden; newsreel; Silent era; baby show; Mothers and babies; Strikes
Locations: Willesden, Brent
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