After Dinner Interludes (1924)

Several entertaining tricks with ordinary household objects are demonstrated. i) How to balance a penny on the edge of a wine glass. C/U of woman’s hands as she fixes two forks together by intermeshing their prongs. The penny is held in the teeth of the forks which is then balanced on the edge of the wine glass. ii) Twelve matches are arranged in 4 squares. C/U of the woman moving four matches to make three squares. (I presume that the preceding intertitle is missing.) iii) Taking six matches from fifteen to leave ten. Matches are arranged in a certain pattern whereby when six are taken away the word TEN remains. Note: flashframe intertitles. 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