Loonie Lids (1930-1939)

Full title reads: “Loonie Lids. A Fashion Forecast for 1950 by our Captive Cartoonist - Joe Noble“. Various cartoon drawings of early hat designs. The cartoon shows how the designs change through time. Intertitle reads: “Our Cartoonist, normally quite harmless, foretells some ’useful’ fashions of the future“. Various nice cartoons showing future possibilities in hat design - e.g. a parcel carrying hat for the hen pecked husband, a Brazier Bowler for the man who is always cold, a combined hat and parachute. There are several other equally madcap designs. N.B. Item found in Unidentified Gazettes reel. FILM ID:2745.4 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, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (19