Ex-Servicemen Create Plastic Dolls AKA Ex-Servicemen Make Dolls (1940)

Unused / unissued material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Australian newsreel item, full title reads: “For crippled children: Ex-Servicemen Create Plastic Dolls“. 1949? Melbourne, Australia MS Hand scooping plastic powder out of a sack to make dolls in ex-servicemen Ken and Geoff Hutchens’ plastic-moulding partnership with Dutch merchant navy man, Theo Shirrman. MS Hand putting powder into moulds. CU Machine pressing out dolls’ legs etc. (3 shots). MS A woman lining up the dolls’ legs from the moulds. CU Pan over dolls’ legs. CU Pan along row of dolls’ heads. CU Dolls’ eyes on brackets. MS Man fitting eyes into dolls’ head. CU Head with eyes opening and shutting. MS “Diana“, the walking doll, in various outfits. (4 shots). MS The three ex-servicemen carrying a basket full of dolls into the Orthopaedic Ward of Melbourne’s Children’s Hospital. MS and CU The servicemen handing out dolls to delighted children, the younger ones kissing the dolls. (10 shots). Cataloguer’s Note: A rather laboured commentary making much of the irony that walking dolls are being given to children who may never walk again. 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. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.