Ernest Dillon (1940)

Titles read: “Now Pathetone Presents ERNEST DILLON ’Public Bounder No. 1.’“ London, probably Pathe Studio. Comedy trampolinist Ernest Dillon is asleep in bed when he is woken up by an alarm clock. He is wearing a top hat with a night-gown. Commentator says Ernest went to “a bottle party“ last night. Ernest eventually gets up, takes his night-shirt off to reveal his suit underneath. He then does lots of funny acrobatic clowning on his bed, which is actually a trampoline, leaping about and turning somersaults, jumping right off the ’bed’ in one stunt. 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 P