Papas Prepare (1941)

Title reads: “Papas Prepare“. New York, United States of America (USA). M/S of prospective fathers seated in classroom at a maternity centre. Midwives are giving the men a lecture. All at once the men take off their jackets and collect baby dolls from a table. Various shots of men bathing the dolls, they fit a nappy on the dolls. We see two of the men in conversation; one says to the other “my mother-in-law says this ain’t right“. Various shots of men cuddling the dolls and winding them. Narrator comments “the new generation will grow up clinging to their fathers’ apron-strings while engineer mothers are out building Bonnie ... bombers!“ 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, which includes more than 136,000 items from