Travelaughs - Getting The Bird By Hy Mayer (1920)

C/U of a cartoon artists hand as he draws a sketch of an owl. Through a camera trick the picture changes into a real owl. A title states that the artist will draw a Yokohama fowl but the story is incomplete and we do not see the sketch or the bird. The artist is Hy Mayer or H.Y. Mayer Was probably a Pathe Pictorial item. Note: title and intertitle for an item called “The Valley of the Indre“ is found at the end of this piece - no images. 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), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984