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Pictorial Revue of 1943 - Reel 1. (Compilation of turns from the Pathe cinemagazines.) No titles. Opens with C/U of radio speaker as we hear commentator say 'Hello everybody, this is Frank Phillips introducing Pathe's Pictorial Revue of '43'. C/U of a photo album with a cockerel on the front being opened. The first page reads 'Collinson and Dean'; the second page shows Collinson sitting at a desk in an office, speaking into a telephone. Fade into the picture, then Collinson (the older of the pair) starts speaking, placing a bet! Dean (the young one) enters and says he's come for his wages after having worked for him for a year. Collinson tells him “figures is the basis of all great businesses“, and leads him over to a blackboard. There he does lots of sums, based on the number of days in a leap year (366!) and somehow works out that Dean has not worked at all in the past year! Dean says “Blimey, I must owe you something!“. (This is missing item 'Business Figures' from PSP 899.) C/U of albu
