The Dunmow Flitch (1924)

Ilford, London. Title: “The DUNMOW FLITCH. Mr. Mardy Jones, Socialist M.P. for Pontypridd wins - proving to the Jury he had not quarrelled with his wife for a year and a day!“ M/S of the interior of a marquee, a ’court’ is being held; Mr. Jones stand in the dock with his wife being questioned by a ’lawyer’ in a wig. M/S of a procession led by two men, one in a mortar board, the other in a wig, walking across a field, at the end four men hold a wooden frame on their shoulders, from the frame a side of beef hangs. Panning shot of a group including the men in a wig and a mortar board, Mr. and Mrs. Jones stand on either side of the side of beef, two children stand with them. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, whic