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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This film is a collection of several partial episodes of Jim Hawthorne’s Funny World, a short comedy series that dates to 1960. Some of these shorts were used as interstitials in early television, when live shows might not be long enough to cover an hour. The show relied on amusing stock footage clips and Hawthorne's patented droll, gag-laced, dry narration. Segments include: elephants in the surf in 1930s Atlantic City taking a bath (:10), a Pelican receiving aid from a veteraniarian who retrieves dozens of items from its stomach, polar bears performing for a crowd (1:40) and drinking from a Coke bottle, dog sled race (2:30), competition barrel jumping by ice skaters (3:00), ridiculous early aircraft tries to take off (3:40), ostrich farm hijinks (4:00), early bicycles on parade including penny farthing type (5:00) , group wrestling match by soldiers or Marines (5:
