Housewife Cyclist (1956)

Isleworth, Middlesex. M/S of Eileen Sheridan at home, sitting in a chair and feeding her baby while her 9-year-old son, Clive, kneels at her feet. Eileen puts the baby back in the cot while commentator tells us she is no ordinary woman; “In addition to her household duties she finds the time to be a champion professional cyclist“. M/S in Eileen’s garage as her husband sets a bicycle on a speed testing machine and holds it steady while Eileen gets on and starts to pedal. Various shots of her cycling on the bike as her husband times her. M/S of Clive sitting on the floor in the house, polishing one of Eileen’s silver trophies; several others are spread out on the floor M/S of Eileen and husband in the garage, as she does some weightlifting - very energetically! Note: on file is correspondence from Eileen and a news article about her from ’Reveille’. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS