Mechanical El (1932)

(Pathetone main titles.) Titles read: “Meet ’Mechanical El.’ He’s an elephant, synthetic, and a pain in the neck to the usual kind.“ Location of events unknown. Various shots of a mechanical elephant walking across a field in a park; a large cloud of smoke comes out of a kind of exhaust pipe at the rear of the machine. A little boy sits on a seat on the elephant’s back, and a man sits on top, ’driving’ the contraption. A real elephant comes over to have a look; he seems a bit freaked out by it! 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 the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959),