https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/b998640b-c317-4194-b516-3bb6664bac58 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 " Jim Hawthorne's Funny World " was created by pioneer radio disk jockey, TV weatherman and comedian Jim Hawthorne. Each segment features an array of stock footage completed with Hawthorne's trademark rolling droll and spit-fire dry humor. It’s sprinkled with early aviation flying machine spoofs featuring a fake pilot inventor ‘Irving Flap’. The shorts were used as interstitials during the early years of television history. Hawthorne's career began in Denver at the KXLA station in 1947. Later, he landed in La with the KLAC station. He created a pioneering evening TV talk show 'The Hawthorne Thing'. This was later looked at as the early predecessor to Saturday Night Live. While working for KFWB, he joined Sherman Greenberg Productions as a producer, writer and narrator. This was when he created “Funny World”. Title screen (:08). Funny world jumps off in Ohio (:17). The human flier tests his glider (:21). “Funny World’s” production staff holds a celebration (:32). Chimpanzees waddle in (:40). A series of clocks are featured in 'Thrills of Minutes' (:54). A (1:36) stunt man in a smart black cap jumps rope sky high above city scrapers. In Oklahoma (1:54), riders are strapped into car seats. A man aims a 16 mm camera (1:58). A large carriage tugged by two horses and a street cop move down NY streets (2:41). Reporters cover the spring training of the Jr. Olympic track team (3:46). Tiny bugs cart stage coaches (3:59). Dirt bike riders buzz out (4:22). Zebras receive psychiatric treatment at Happy Time Zoo (4:45). An army service man rides his bike up to a stunt man and a 1949 Plymouth Coup (5:19). The service man takes the bike on his chin (5:30). He balances a stack atop a pole in an indoor pool (5:49). The chief tester for a perfume company (6:12) wags her tail down streets in a thick fur. A 1940’s Wanderer pulls up (6:32). Credits interrupt (6:37); it’s a KTTV program sales presentation. Next to Tasmania (7:25), and a river full of sharks. A bird plucks seeds from teeth of the head waiter at the Lonesome Corner’s Cafe (7:52). Footage watches a high wire walker from below (8:23). Underwater skits show a Nevada family around a picnic table (9:29) and a game of golf (10:52). Men play a sloppy ballet (12:10). A daring swimmer claws out of icy doom with an ice skate (13:17). A diver somersaults from the high dive (13:34). Another tight rope walker sways in a suit (14:13).  A lovers headstand (14:43); acrobats balance and dine on elegant eats. Baby carriages race in a derby (15:05). Players stop for a chug of booze (15:28). A dog bounces on a pinball machine (15:47). Toy stock cars (18:10) test at the 'Indian Apples Speedway'. A tiny car spins and flips out (18:31). The pit crew patches up (18:39). An elephant splashes (18:52). Wisconsin (19:42) customers are blasted with steam (19:50). The antique Towers of the Luther Church in Wittenberg follow (21:37). A German bird feeder swing a basket out (21:48) over the city skyline. Football helmets are tested against stone walls (24:43). A seaplane skims over water (24:56). Short Mayo Composite Aircraft (25:24) swim by. Troops blow on brass (26:11). Chimpanzee’s dressed as “Funny World” executives get a shave (26:25). Socialites hang on a floating snack bar (29:33). A Good Year blimp (29:56) pulls a man up (30:03). A white cake faced dwarf clown takes a child’s hand (31:53). Seniors spin in a stunning silver waltz (33:29). Small toy dogs get inspected for a dog show (35:12). Sunbathing bombshells sit in a garden (35:59). A doppelganger of Bridget Bardot puts on a pair of white shades (36:04). Stilt walkers get married (37:47). Small dogs chase rhinos (38:45). A lion chomps on a fat steak (38:57). A man in headdress stuffed with bird feathers appears (41:05). Hula girls sway in the Christmas Islands (41:44). Seals put on a show with lifeguards (42:06). Firefighters put out fires in new suits (43:47). 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. 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