Celebrity Ice Gala - Reel 1 (1952)

Unused / unissued footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Celebrity Ice Gala at Queen’s Ice Club, Bayswater in London - reel 1. L/S of young girl, Yvonne Sugden, going through ice skating routine on the rink. L/S of ice skating star Ron Priestley skating on stilts (act called ’Elevated Antics’). He wears a coloured mortar board and and jacket - looks like some kind of zany teacher. At one point he skates with a rather short young man and they do some clowning and stunts together. L/S of World Ice Dance Champions Lawrence Demmy and Jean Westwood going through routine on the ice. L/S of Hamilton Brown doing comic routine on the ice. He is dressed in raggedy tramp clothes and does lots of tricks pretending to fall over. L/S of Jeanette Altwegg performing her routine on the ice. L/S of formation of skaters in pairs doing routine. Note: most shots here are quite light. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF G