Very rare short called Will Hay's Academy on 16mm film. The film is an excerpt from Good Morning Boys (1937). It's the opening school classroom scene, released as a short in January 1939 by GB Equipments who also made film projectors, to be shown at public and private film showings with other shorts, often cycling proficiency/safety films, fundraising charity events and a film show for the children of Labour Party members at the Heath School, Hounslow. It then went quiet with the War on but was shown on 13th January 1943 in Crieff, Perthshore for a Red Cross fundraiser, then seen at the Picton Hall, Liverpool on 4th October 1944. It was then shown  at a film show organised by the National Savings Committee at the Wellstood Club, Falkirk on 8th March 1946 after which it goes quiet until 1951 when it shows up twice for the final time; firstly on 28th & 29th March at an Easter film show at the Parish Hall, Whitstable, and finally at Acton on 3rd December during a school road safety quiz and film night for school children, as elsewhere the comic relief from all the more serious offerings! I highly expect there were other screenings not picked up by the press but it doesn't appear to have been seen since 1951 in this form.

Sent by Royal Mail Tracked for safety.

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