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INTEREST. An inventor shows off his new machine which can relay any event or portray any person at the touch of a button. R.1 Credits (66). Sky scrapers - a long corridor - an office with the name Phoney Film and T.V. Corporation on the door. The president is Mr. Charles St. John Clodbury (Ronald Frankau) (87). The secretary answers the telephone, puts the caller off, hangs up and it rings again (118). Clodbury in his office is also speaking on the telephone. He says goodbye and then asks his secretary to get hold of his lawyers (142). A man comes into the secretary's office. Clodbury is speaking on the telephone again. The other man tells the secretary about his new invention which will revolutionize industry. The inventor then takes his machine into Clodbury's office. It is a combined television and radiogram, which will show anything from the past, present or future (300). To test the machine, Clodbury tells him to get the dance demonstration in Volga which he promptly does. There is demonstrated the Russian, Greek, Swiss and Bulgarian national dances (544). He then gets the machine to go into the home of Claude Dampier. Claude is in his workshop making a cupboard. He is using glue and gets wood shavings stuck all over his hand. He takes the cupboard to the house where his dog is waiting (710). Billie Carlisle is in the kitchen and she takes a tray into Claude (771). Claude then goes back into the garden (780). R.2 The dog rushes to the end of the garden where a boat is moored and Claude feeds the swans. He then gets some milk out of the boat and takes it to Mrs. Gibson. He leaves it outside her door (69). He is then seen rolling a cigarette (118). Clodbury then asks him to show where Miss Fielding, his secretary, went the previous night. A night-club appears on the screen and a cabaret act is about to start. A group of dancing girls sing and dance the polka. They then reappear as Eastern dancers, with one girl in particular, performing gymnastic feats (749). The inventor then says he will show them what various ways people have of going to bed. A girl wearing pyjamas is brushing her hair in front of the mirror. A man in a nightshirt and nightcap. A woman in a nightdress (811). R.3 She gets into bed (30). A lady undressing (56). A shot of her in bed with nothing on (74). Back to the lady in the pyjamas who is reading in bed (90). Another lady eats an apple in bed (105). Yet another is smoking (126). A lady in a pyjama top only (146). A woman asleep in bed with her leg hanging out of the bed (155). Another one snoring in bed (163). A man in bed rolls over and falls on the floor. He decides to stay where he is and the dog gets on the bed (209). A swimming pool surrounded by people sunbathing. A picture of people bathing in costumes of the 1910 era (254). Then three women model the latest in beach wear. A shot of a young girl in the bath (279). Clodbury asks the inventor how much he wants for the machine (325). The machine then has Ronald Frankau on. He sings to the accompaniment of a piano. He then tells a joke about Matthew the Moth. He ends his act by singing a ballad (845). The machine then shows a film that might have been shown in the silent era. A young man named Charley Brown decides he might stay home nights if his wife had her face remodelled, so he takes her to the beauty parlour. Mother-in-law comes too. She gets out of the car and is standing in front of the open door when Charley decides to move off. He inadvertently drags Ma-in-law along till she is stopped by a lamp-post. After much pulling and struggling, he eventually reverses to set her free (942). R.4 At the beauty parlour waits Mr. Dunn-Brown who has persuaded his wife to have her freckles removed. His wife goes in and Mr. Dunn-Brown leaves and hails a taxi which happens to be Charley's (54). 4 p.m. at the Beauty Parlour, Everything that hadn't been lifted was dropped for the day. Charley comes to call for his wife and mistakes pretty Mrs. Dunn-Brown for his transformed spouse. She is still dazed from the anaesthetic. He takes her off in his car with Mr. Dunn-Brown in hot pursuit. At his home, Charley's wife and mother-in-law arrive. His mother-in-law peeps through the keyhole and sees Charlie making advances to this strange woman. She bangs on the door. By this time, Mrs. Dunn-Brown has recovered and is crying for help. Her husband rushes in, beats up Charley and takes his wife home. Mother-in-law also hits Charley (415). Clodbury and the inventor get down to business discussions over the machine while Miss Fielding starts fiddling with the switches. She gets to the night club again where a comic is doing his turn (652). She then switches to a juggler, a singer and dancers in turn (682). All this proves too much for the machine and it starts to explode (704). An Adelphi Films Production. Subject refs: 947 : 793.31 RUSSIA : National dances 949.5 : 793.31 GREECE : National dances 949.4 : 793.31 SWITZERLAND : National dances 949.72 : 793.31 BULGARIA : National dances 792.7 CABARETS : Night clubs 391.47.6 BATHING COSTUMES 687.246 NIGHTWEAR Biog. refs: DAMPIER, Claude FRANKAU, Ronald CARLISLE, Billie