British Pathé
Synopsis: Newsreel footage on various subjects, including a cat “wrestling” with a goose, a woman cleaning windows, men stretching a cable across the Danube and men climbing across glaciers.
Reality Cat: The opening segment was shot in Australia, although no real context is provided. The narrator says that wrestling season is now open and introduces the combatants as Daisy Duck versus Tornado Tom, the Terror of the Tabbies. Actually it is a goose and a tabby cat inside a makeshift boxing ring.
A couple of kookaburras and a cockatoo make up the audience as the cat and goose roll around on the mat.
The cat gets his mouth around the back of the goose’s neck but it is all play fighting, as the pair were reportedly good friends.
Final Mewsings: It’s all fun and games until the cat decides goose sounds good for dinner!
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