https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/73c5a76d-6e91-4097-8d18-25e035e1f20c Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This film titled “It’s Fun to Reduce” is a black-and-white episode from 1955 from the Guild Films daytime TV-program with the same name. It stars Margaret Firth demonstrating exercises assisted by Marlene Cornall. The film is directed by Bruce Bilson, photographed by Mack Stengler, edited by Walter S. Stern. This historic TV show -- apparently one of the first exercise classes for women ever televised -- portrays an old-fashioned approach to women’s exercise, weight-loss, and dieting. Credits (00:06). Two women swing one of their arms as an exercise (00:10). “It’s Fun to Reduce” title banner (00:11). Credits (00:21). Margaret Firth introduces the first exercise of this program (00:34). Margaret introduced the warm up; ‘Bend and Bob’ (00:51). She firstly relaxes her shoulders (01:00). Then she stands her feet wider apart (01:10). She begins stretching hands over her head (01:21). She bends forward and touches the floor twice (01:41) and stretches her hands back up over her head (01:45). She repeats the ‘Bend and Bob’ warm-up exercise (01:47). Her assistant Marlene joins Margaret (01:57). They repeat the ‘Bend and Bob’ warm-up exercise (02:06). Margaret instructs the viewer to shake their arms and feet along with her and Marline (02:44). She then gives instructions for circling the shoulders (02:51), then the head (02:53). Margaret then introduces the start of the work-out (02:57). A poster on an easel demonstrates the first exercise ‘double-arm swing’ (03:50). Margaret shows the next poster demonstrating the ‘high-kick’ exercise (03:32). She shows the next poster demonstrating the ‘sit-ups’ exercise (03:49). Margaret steps away from the easel (04:27).She shakes her arms (04:33).and begins the ‘double-arm swing’ exercise (04:38). Her assistant Marlene joins Margaret (05:11). They do the ‘double-arm swing’ exercise together in two sets of eight repetitions (05:18). Margaret instructs the viewer to shake their arms (06:08) and circle the shoulders (06:11). Margaret introduces the ‘high-kick’ exercise (06:22). She pulls out a chair (06:29). Marlene stands behind the chair back and Margaret places one knee on the seat of the chair (06:32). Marlene swings her leg up to demonstrate how to do the ‘high-kick’ exercise (06:43). Marlene steps to the other side and repeats the exercise with the other leg (07:21). Marlene repeats the exercise on both legs (07:34). Margaret instructs the viewer to shake their legs and push the chair aside (08:08). Margaret instructs the viewer on how to properly sit down and Marlene demonstrates (08:20). Margaret gives instructions on how to do the ‘sit-ups’ exercise and Marlene demonstrates firstly the modified version with bent legs (08:32). Then she demonstrates the advanced version of the exercise with the legs flat against the floor (10:00). Margaret instructs the viewer to hold and take a deep breath and to repeat the exercise (10:24). Marlene demonstrates (10:35). Margaret announces the end of the exercise session (10:56). She is sitting in a chair and she talks about diet restrictions and “bad” food habits (11:11). Credits (11:45). “It’s Fun to Reduce” title banner outro (12:11). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LplcVSrrqYs Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:56:39 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/73c5a76d-6e91-4097-8d18-25e035e1f20c All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.