Sketch Club (1953)

Long Acre, London. M/S man with a pipe walks down passageway and knocks on door which is marked ’White Swan Tudor Street - Fleet Street, Sketch Club - Private’. Panel slides back in door to reveal man’s face. He recognises newcomer and opens door. Inside we see several men and women sketching a girl (art student Daphne) who is posing in a bikini. Good C/Us of newspaper cartoonists at work - David Langdon of the Sunday Pictorial; Marco of the London Evening Standard; Norman Pett (creator of ’Jane’) of the Daily Mirror. Honorary Secretary of the ’Sketch Club’, Joe Dowd of the Daily Herald, gets another girl (art teacher Lorna) in a swimsuit to take over as model. She poses with a beach ball. Elizabeth Cowley and Avril Showell of ’Woman’ magazine sketch. More artists: Preston Bencson of ’The Star’, Norman Williams of ’The Eagle’ and Joss of ’The Star’ and founder member of the Sketch Club. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT