Pram Progress (1932)

No title. C/U of a child sitting in a very old fashioned pram. The child wears a large white bonnet and dress. L/S of mother pushing baby in its pram towards the camera. They are walking down the driveway of a house. It is probably a rather grand house. The woman wears old fashioned clothes (Georgian?) She stops to put up a parasol. “Later on, they became an easier proposition - “ L/S of woman pushing baby in a pram through an ornamental garden. The pram is quite large and unwieldy. “This little steering idea was neat - “ Another pram is pushed through the garden, the mother can negotiate a corner pretty well. “Limousines, too - “ M/S of baby looking out of the window of a rather grand pram - almost like a little car. Mother stands beside the pram in a glamorous fur trimmed coat. L/S of the pram being pushed through a park. C/U of the undercarriage of the pram. Mother puts the brake on with her foot. She then rolls back the roof - a convertible! The side is then folded down (baby doesn’t look too happy). L/S of mother folding it all back again. “And what about the motor pram - ?“ M/S of a nanny putting baby into a motorised pram. The nanny stands on the back of the pram and zooms off. Fantastic! Was an item in Eve’s Film Review issue number 556. FILM ID:952.2 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.