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Short comedy film directed by Slim Summerville and starring Arthur Lake, Isobel Milestone, and Billy Engle. Content unknown.
Laurel and Hardy appear at the door while the party is happening. They sold the lions to Baron Munchausen (Jack Pearl) and he paid with a cheque for 50,000 tiddlywinks and they want the lions back.
And you know yourself, Pat, Lucien "Tiddlywinks" O'Malley wasn't bad at all until he got into the ring.
Fred Astaire says "No Horace, and it isn't tiddlywinks, either."
Biggsby goes into the communal living room, where he becomes outraged when he discovers that his tiddleywinks game is missing.
The detective tells Biggsby that he has ordered Anne to change Olaf's medication and that he knows Biggsby poisoned the physicians' drinks with his tiddleywinks chips. (Synopsis from American Film Institute catalog of mtion pictures produced in the United States: Feature Films, Volume 1, Number 1, page 539.)
free people can "beat the world at anything, from war to tiddlywinks, if we all pull in the same direction."
The Vicar says to Sean Thornton (John Wayne) "Do you play tiddlywinks?"
Philadelphia coverage of University of Pennsylvania team
Other appearances by John Evans.
Tape recording of Goons match made by David Evans from BBC broadcasts. LP record produced from tape.
Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club vs. the Goons representing Prince Philip.
Coverage of CUTwC vs. Goons match.
Coverage of CUTwC-Goons match
Synopsis from archives: The Duke of Edinburgh, President of the National Playing Fields Association sent a message to the 2 teams playing. Cambridge University won by 70 points. The captain of the Goons, Spike Milligan was interviewed afterwards.
C/U Tiddley Winks, SOF up Snagge (&): SOF starts: "Please give my best wishes to the two teams taking part...", game starts, playing, shots of game - leans in 80, crowd, hands up, Spike Milligan interviewed (90). Video clip is 1 minute, 39 seconds.
CUTwC
Goons
Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club vs. the Goons representing Prince Philip.
Coverage of CUTwC vs. Oxford match.
Coverage of Cambridge-Bristol match.
Appearance by John Evans of Cambridge.
Statement by Donald Duck at 16 minutes, 46 seconds into the video.
What's Next?
Tiddlywinks?
Coverage of the 26 February 1959 match between Cambridge and Oxford, won by Cambridge, 64 to 48. Aired 27 February 1959.
Summary script of scenes in film. 1. LV. Ext. Cambridge University.
2 ft 2. CU Poster advertising tiddlywink ball 4 ft
3. STV Pan Across the four mats (SOF) Announcing start of match.
4. SV Oxford kick off with a near miss 21 ft 5. SCU Cambridge also just miss a tiddle. 24.5 ft
6. SCU Stirling Moss watching the battle 25.5 ft
7. SCU An Oxford player flips badly. 28 ft
8. STV Crowd 29 ft
9. CU Cambridge player surreptitiously shoving an Oxford wink further away from the tiddle. 34 ft
10. SV A mis-flip by Cambridge. 26.5 ft
11. CU Another. 38 ft
12. SCU Judge inspecting winks closely before giving a decision. 40 ft
13. SV Chris Brasher watching. 42 ft
14. SV From Cambridge to Oxford contestant 45 ft
15. CU Both players flipping. 47 ft
16. STV Cambridge making the winning flip. 51.5 ft
17. SV The Mayor and Mayoress of Cambridge watching. 53.5 ft
18. SV Announcer pronouncing Cambridge the winners. Applaud to end. 62 ft
Visnews was at Cambridge Feb 26 to film the first official inter-university tiddly winks match between Oxford and Cambridge. After a two hour battle, Cambridge University smashed a first-class Oxford side to become the all-England Tiddlywinks champions.
Coverage of the 26 February 1959 match between Cambridge and Oxford, won by Cambridge, 64 to 48. Aired 1 March
Coverage of a match involving Cambridge University and a team led by General Sir Hugh Stockwell. Duration: 44 seconds.
Oxford vs. Cambridge.
Coverage of the first Prince Philip Silver Wink competition. Oxford beat Cambridge. Duration: 54 seconds.
Coverage of Oxford tour of the United States
Coverage of Harvard matches.
Coverage of University College London winkers.
Coverage of University College London winkers.
Appearance of an Oxford winker on the game show.
Appearance of a Harvard winker on the talk/variety show.
Filming of Oxford team in London.
15 minute demonstration by the Harvard team on national TV.
Appearance of a Harvard winker on the game show.
Coverage of talk about changing the name of the game.
Coverage of Sixth Northern Junior Championships
Summary text from website: Sloane Square, London.
Students from London Universities raise money for charities by performing various stunts in their annual rag. The camera follows a pram race, with one student with a potty on his head, one in pyjamas, and a girl sucking a lolly sitting in a pram. We also follow a tiddlywinks race in Kensington High Street, where the students are seen trying to get a tiddlywink back from a drain, and try to prise the drain cover off with an umbrella.
Kim Novak appears flicking coins into a glass.
Appearance by Martin O'Shea, Helen Mathers, Charles McLeod, Iain Brodie. Demonstration and interviews.
Appearance by Martin O'Shea, Helen Mathers, Charles McLeod, Iain Brodie. Demonstration and interviews.
Interview of Geoff Wilsher.
Appearance by Tony Herbert and Geoff Wilsher.
Coverage of 1965 Tiddlywinks Congress.
Coverage of England vs. Wales match, including interviews with Penny Gardner and Pat Bonham.
Northern Junior Tiddlywinks Championships.
Northern Junior Tiddlywinks Championships.
Interview with Geoffrey Scott of Queens Tiddlywinks Club, Belfast.
3 minutes and 43 seconds black-and-white video
Summary of video from web page: Queen’s students practice the serious sport of Tiddlywinks ahead of a championship match. Geoffrey Scott, leader of the university club, tells Leslie Dawes all about it and how the game is played. It is much more complicated than the game we played as children.
Interview with the Waterloo team.
National news coverage of University of Waterloo marathon.
Coverage of the First Irish Tiddlywinks Convention.
National coverage of University of Toronto marathon
Coverage of the Continentals team championship held at the University of Waterloo.
Appearance by Charles Relle.
Coverage of 1969 Continentals team championships.
5 minutes coverage of the 1969 Continentals team championships in the MIT Student Center's Sala de Puerto Rico.
Mitch Wand appearance on game show.
Appearance of Moishe (Michael Schwartz) and L (Richard Hussong) on the Boston-based talk show.
Phil Villar appearance on the talk/variety show after the 1970 Continentals team championship.
Duration: 1 minute 49 seconds
Summary of video from web page: Bob LANGLEY reports on the game of Tiddleywinks - a game of chance and therefore not allowed to be played in York.
Toronto team appearance, possibly associated with the 1971 Continentals team championships.
Tim Schiller, Franz Christ, and Alan Dean appear live on BBC for $30, in the middle of the 1972 World Team Championship.
Tim Schiller, Franz Christ, and Alan Dean appear live on ITV in the middle of the 1972 World Team Championship.
Tim Schiller appearance on game show.
With Ross McWhirter from the Guinness Book of Records. Duration: 22 seconds.
Summary of video from original BBC Motion Gallery web page: World record for non-stop tiddleywinks played by boys of a N. London School. Went on for just over a week. Goes into Guinness Book of Records var s boys at North London school play tiddleywinks; cs tiddleywinks goal scored zo boys playing & Ross McWHIRTER announcing record (10') blackboard recording 170 hours non-stop play (14')
With Roy Castle and Norris & Ross McWhirter.
Summary of video from original BBC Motion Gallery web page: ITEM 03: TIDDLYWINKS: Ross visits Quintin-Kynaston School in St John's Wood, London to see some of its pupils set a new world record with a marathon game of tiddlywinks. (FILM: 1m10s)
Coverage of the Cambridge vs. Oxford at Christ's College match.
Coverage of the Cambridge vs. Oxford at Christ's College match.
Bill Renke appearance on a Toronto, Canada news show, at the 1974 Canadian Pairs tournament.
Skit during football halftime by the Harvard Lampoon with Larry Kahn's hand shooting winks.
Appearance by Charles Frankston and book author Paul Dickson on the talk/variety show.
Segment with MIT winkers Rich Steidle, Charles Frankston, Rick Tucker, and Joe Sachs. Videotaped in room 400, MIT Student Center on 5 July 1977.
Halloween show with a scene featuring the Fonz and kids play tiddlywinks in a hospital suite.
Tiddlywinks joke concerning the film, Rocky III, on local news in Boston.
"NBC is carrying a tiddlywinks competition" against the Super Bowl.
News spots of Dave Lockwood's tiddlywinks exhibition at Morsan's store. 4 New York stations covered the exhibition, some combination of channels 2, 5, 9, and 4 or 11.
Interview filmed with Dave Lockwood.
Appearances by Jon Mapley, Nigel Knowles, and Alan Dean.
Art Carney's character Marcus says "The mafia don't play tiddlywinks."
Let's go play tiddlywinks
Joke about firemen playing tiddlywinks with spots on a Dalmation dog.
Joke about tiddlywinks tournament.
Mention of word "tiddlywinks".
Interview of Jon Mapley after ETwA National Singles.
Possible appearance by Cambridge University and Oxford.
Staged competition on the variety show between Dave Lockwood and a nonwinker Harvey Mudd College student in California. Part of the show intro included a teaser; segment ran from around 8:01 pm to 8:08 EST. At least the Dave Lockwood segments were filmed on 21 November 1979. The tiddlywinks segement of this episode is mentioned in a variety of television listings in newspaers and TV Guide magazine.
Appearance of Dave Lockwood on the game show, recorded in June 1980. The show aired in Boston on 24 November 1980, in New York at 10 am on WABC on 29 December 1980, and also aired in Chicago and San Francisco.
Coverage of World Singles competition between Dave Lockwood and Larry Kahn. It was filmed at the MIT Club of New York on 41st Street. Drew Scott was the newscaster. Severin Drix provided match commentary. The video introductions occurred at 11:39 pm and 11:52 pm. An audio introduction occurred at 11:57 pm. The actual segment was shown from 12:03 to 12:04 am.
Tiddlywinks segment duration: 8 minutes 11 seconds.
Summary of video from original BBC Motion Gallery web page: ITEM 05: FROG GAME: Sarah shows viewers how to make an elaborate game of tiddlywinks with a frog pond motif. Game designed by Margaret PARNELL (8m11s)
Interview with Dave Lockwood
Appearance by Tim Schiller in a 3 minute film piece on the sports news.
Report after the first day of the Continentals team championships.
Report on the final Continentals scores with a short film clip.
Benny Hill sings a song with "tiddlywinks" and "tiddle" / "wink".
Filming for the news/variety show, filmed in Ithaca, New York with coverage of the NATwA Pairs championship.
Summary of video from original BBC Motion Gallery web page: Richard KERSHAW & Sue COOK take a look at some events in London and the South East over the weekend which viewers might want to join in or watch.
Events discussed are a world tiddlywinks championship in East London
EX LIB FILM: cs's tiddlywinks game (15.46-15.52);
Filming for the news/variety show, filmed in the MIT Student Center's Sala de Puerto Rico in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with coverage of the Continentals team championship. Broadcast in a 6 minute segment by WBZ-TV in either April or May 1982.
Broadcast between 5:30 pm and 6:00 pm on the news segment hosted by Bud Hechinger and produced by Bob Pierce. Interview of Severin Drix as the "Foster-father of North American Tiddlywinks"
Col. Potter says "Tough tiddlywinks".
Segment on the game Trivial Pursuit, with questions regarding tiddlywinks.
Regular Jeopardy, category "Kid Stuff" for $300, "Its championship games are held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where it was founded". Contestant Gail Duncan responded "What are tiddlywinks?" The correct answer was "Little League Baseball".
Coverage of the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club. Taped: 4 December 1985.
Steve Doocy's segment on the news show interviewing winking world champion Larry Kahn. The Video introduction starts at 5:51 pm. The video segment ran from 5:56 pm to 5:59 pm.
Summary of video from original BBC Motion Gallery web page: 2nd in series looking at a year in the life of Queens' College Cambridge. The hectic & confusing intro to life as a Cambridge student - concentrating on a medic who becomes ill & a mathematician who less the Light & converts to Christianity
vars' of "Winkers" (players of Tiddlywinks) at serious play (28.34-29.11)
Tiddlywinks news item
Summary of video from original ITNsource.com web page: ALL ACTION NORTH OF ENGLAND PRO-AM TIDDLYWINKS CHALLENGE CUP LAST NIGHT
Video footage of tiddlywinks.
Duration: 6 minutes, 6 seconds.
Summary of video from original ITNsource.com web page: 18:52:50 Some of the participants in the Tiddlywinks World Championships recently played in England tell Howard Gipps about some of the finer points of the game and explain the terminology. 18:58:56 Ends.
Coverage of English Singles championship.
Coverage of English Singles, including Jon Mapley, on a Sunday morning magazine show.
Interview of Larry Kahn.
Appearance of Steve McKee promoting his book, The Call of the Game, on the news/variety show. Tiddlywinks was discussed.
Coverage of Ocean City NJ tiddlywinks demonstrations on the boardwalk, starting at 11:35 pm.
Regular Jeopardy, category "Games" for $400: "Game in which a player can achieve squopping with his squidger, the larger disc". No player attempted it. Appears 9½ minutes into the syndicated game show.
Larry Kahn, Dave Lockwood, Fred Shapiro, and Rick Tucker breaking Guinness Book of Records of the 4 pot relay record, with 39 winks.
World Singles match between Kahn and Mapley at Original Sports Bar, Baltimore, Maryland. Taped from 8 pm to 11:30 pm by Rick Tucker, Dave Lockwood, and perhaps others.
On 6 pm news at 6:28 pm (teaser) and after (before 7 pm). Interview of Jon Mapley.
On local nightly news at 12:30 am. Results of World Singles, showing Larry Kahn.
Coverage of English Singles in Cambridge. Filmed 20 Nov 1988.
LSU head basketball coach Dale Brown: "That doesn't mean taking tiddlywinks and basketweaving" at 7:34 pm Eastern Time.
Coverage of World Pairs 8, held 28 to 29 July 1989, where Dave Lockwood and Jim Marlin defeated previous champions Larry Kahn and Charles Relle.
Tiddlywinks championship coverage.
Summary of video from original ITNsource.com web page: 08:48:20 Charles Osgood's report on the North American Tiddlywink Assoc. challenge in Washington.
Coverage of the World Pairs held on 28 July 1989 between Dave Lockwood & Jim Marlin and Larry Kahn & Charles Relle.
A 1940s-era tiddlywinks set appears on a on shelf in an opening scene.
Four references to tiddlywinks played at Cambridge University.
George: Myself and the rest of the fellows leapfrogging down to the Cambridge recruiting office and then playing tiddlywinks in the queue. We had hammered Oxford's tiddlywinkers only the week before, and there we were, off to hammer the Boche!
George: Gosh, yes, I, I suppose I'm the only one of the Trinity Tiddlers still alive.
George: I mean, I'm the last of the tiddlywinking leapfroggers from the Golden Summer of 1914.
Played with it "like it was a tiddlywink" regarding a large container of parmigiana reggiana.
"Newswink" mentioned in an answer under the category "Organizations" on the syndicated game show.
Coverage of promotional winks event at the Elise Newman Gallery arranged by Marg Calhoun., at 10:55 pm Eastern Time.
Larry Kahn appearance.
Judge Lance Ito in the OJ Simpson trial: "For all I know they may be playing tiddlywinks."
Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds.
Summary of video from original BBCmotiongallery.com web page: 1.00 at 15EC, 1m42s, incl s CARLTON AD mls Tiddlywinks players and Carlton name in corner of screen
Summary of video from original web page: Cheryl BAKER, Gordon KENNEDY and Toby ANSTIS pres prog which encourages pple to take up new pursuits & leisure activities, Items inc Aikido; fifties; acupuncture;tiddlywinks;fashion recycler;falconery;market trader;firefighter. ITEM 04:TIDDLYWINKS:Christine WIGGINS hobby is tiddlywinks.
Duration: 22 seconds.
Summary of video from original ITNsource.com web page: FIFTH YORK MASTERS IS AN EIGHTEEN HOLE TIDDLYWINKS COMPETITION COMPLETE WITH BUNKERS, FAIRWAYS AND GREENS FOR THE NON-GOLFING BUSINESSMAN.
Summary of video from original BBCmotiongallery.com web page: ITEM 05: TIDDLYWINKS: Cheryl + Kriss are joined by Patrick MOORE to witness the most exciting game of tiddlywinks ever.
INGLIS, Nick; RELLE, Charles; MOORE, Patrick; PURVIS, Andy; FAYERS, Matt; WIGGINS, Christine
Duration: 19 minutes, 56 seconds.
Richard impresses Sooty, Sweep and Scampi with his tiddlywink playing, until they all beat him and won't believe him that it is a sport.
It gives them all the idea to start a health and fitness club. And luckily who should check in to the hotel, but Olympic athlete, Kriss Akabusi. He is totally unimpressed with Soo's attempt at leading physical exercises, gets thrown off Scampi's modified exercise bike, then is nearly frozen alive in the home-made sauna.
Kriss reckons it's a safe bet to agree to sponsor the club if they can find one sport they are good at. They decide that tiddlywinks is the only one. Kriss turns out to be a tiddlywink expert too, and sponsors the 'Kriss Akabusi Tiddlywink Club'
Examples of events include how many tiddlywinks can be stuffed inside a man's foreskin.
Winker Patrick Barrie appears as a contestant on this game show. All 9 contestants were national champions, from squash to tiddlywinks .
Summary of video from original ITNsource.com web page: The 24th World Pairs Tiddlywinks Championship were won by Patrick Barrie and Ed Wynn from the UK who defeated the USA's Matt Fayers and Larry Kahn in Cambridge, England on Thursday (October 24).
Tiddlywinks has been a serious adult game since it was developed by a group of Cambridge undergraduates in the 1950's.
The game is played on a rectangular mat with six plastic discs, called winks, two being 22 mm in diameter, four 16 mm in diameter. A disc called a squidger is used to play the winks. The aim of the game is to secure the highest number of points (tiddlies).
Players take it in turns to take shots at the pot, earning an extra go if they succeed in potting their wink. If any winkis covered by another, the lower wink is said to be squopped and cannot be played, hence players can play tactically by capturing and guarding their opponents winks.
Pairs matches last for 25 minutes each game, after which each colour has a further five rounds.
The World Pairs Tiddlywinks Championship was played over seven games at Queens' College, Cambridge.
Final Score: Patrick Barrie and Ed Wynn 26 1/2 - Matt Fayers and Larry Kahn 22 ½.
Coverage of the 24th World Pairs, Patrick Barrie and Ed Wynn defending title against Matt Fayers and Larry Kahn.
Summary of scenes: CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, UK (October 24, 2002) (HOT UNDER THE COLLAR PRODUCTIONS VNR)
1. SCENIC SHOTS OF CAMBRIDGE
2. SOUNDBITE (English) PATRICK BARRIE OF THE UK TEAM SAYING: "Well the game of tiddlywinks involves, at the nursery level, trying to flick counters into a central pot. We take it one stage further, there's an extra shot in our game, the squop shot, and if you play one of your counters onto your enemy, that covers them up and it captures them and that wink can't then be played."
3. PREPARING PLAYING SURFACE FOR MATCH
4. SOUNDBITE (English) LARRY KAHN OF THE USA TEAM SAYING: "In some ways it's still a kids game. Sometimes the game gets so silly even when we play it that you can't take it 100 percent seriously, you know we do in a match like this, but there's still elements of the kids game which is potting. People don't realise there's squopping which causes the game to be more strategic, so people don't realise that's what the tournaments game is about."
5. VARIOUS OF MATCH BEING PLAYED
6. PATRICK BARRIE AND ED WYNN RECEIVING TROPHY
I'm sorry I played tiddlywinks with your heart.
Greg: What do you do for exercise?
Hobie: Tiddly winks. And an occasional anxiety attack.
Patrick Barrie and Larry Kahn talk about playing tiddlywinks. Larry Kahn plays Andy Purvis in a World Singles match. Stew Sage reads Winking World. Matt Fayers watches the match. A crowd of winkers claps. Andy Purvis talks about winning the match. Duration: 7 minutes, 44 seconds.
Rory and Paddy visit with the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club.
Regular Jeopardy, category "Spheres" for $400, "A British pub hosts the world championship of the game involving your thumb & these spheres". Contestant Justin Klos responded "What is tiddlywinks?" The correct answer was "Marbles".
A Milton Bradley Jumbo Tiddledy Winks box, with a mostly blue box, appears on the floor at 20 minutes, 30 seconds into the episode.
Medical soap opera. Duration: 27 minutes, 57 seconds.
Tim is through to finals of big tiddlywinks competition, against US champion. He's picked up an injury but his father Bob is pushing him to compete anyway. Cherry attends to give onsite medical attention. Tim is getting thrashed until he finds out his father bet against him & surges into lead. Bob admits it was reverse psychology - of course he never bet against him.
The Viceroy of India's daughter liked playing tiddlywinks, also known as "flipperty flop" or "jumpkins". Emily Lytton, daughter of Lord Lytton, who was also the husband of the architect Lutyens who designed most of New Delhi, described an evening playing the game when she was 17 (the quote is on a card read by Ronni): "I assure you no words can picture either the intense excitement or the noise. I always scream in describing it." The game was originally called "tiddledy-winks". The little counters are called "winks" while the bigger one is called a "squidger". Normally the colours are yellow and green vs. red and blue. Other terms used in the game include "squop", "boondock" and "the Good move" which is named after one John Good. The squop is one of the most basic things in the game, in which your wink covers an opponent's wink so they cannot move it. The game has to be played on felt or baize to work.