Window Cleaning World Record
From the collection of
A Pub With No Beer
- Armagh
- 1984-10
Window Cleaning World Record (Six Tonight)
The fastest window-cleaner in the west?
Ronan Kelly reports for the Six Tonight news programme from Lurgan where a local window cleaner is attempting a new world record for the fastest cleaning. A three-sided structure has been put up in a car park in the town centre with windows on each side and Gerald Follis hopes to clean all three windows quicker than the current world record of 14.9 seconds.
He tells Ronan that in practice ninety-nine times out of a hundred he would be under twelve seconds but is still wary about replicating this against the official stopwatch. We then see Gerald in action as the attempt gets under way and he is interviewed again afterwards. The piece ends with Ronan having a go in sped-up footage - only to find the crowds all gone when he has finished.
Six Tonight was the nightly early evening news programme for Ulster Television, starting in the late 1980s and was effectively a rebranding of the previous show, Good Evening Ulster.
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A Walk on the Weird Side
The extraordinary, the absurd and the downright weird combine in this collection of reports from UTV’s nightly Good Evening Ulster news programme.
Despite the often bleak aspect of local news in Northern Ireland during the decades relating to The Troubles, ordinary - and sometimes extraordinary - life continued on. This series of some of the more off-the-wall reports from the UTV news archives shows the citizens of Northern Ireland engaging in unusual schemes, fundraisers, pastimes and humorous events.
From Earl Bird attempting to set a new world record for non-stop yodelling to a nuclear bunker disco, from a pub with no beer to a canine snooker referee, you’ll find this collection full to the brim with the odd, the eccentric and the full-on weird.
23 videos in this collection
1
A Pub With No Beer
2
Window Cleaning World Record
3
The Garden Tiger
4
Bay City Rollers Fans
5
Model Car World Record Attempt
6
Buried Alive World Record Part 1
7
Buried Alive World Record Part 2
8
Cow Pat Throwing
9
There's No Business like Gnomes Business
10
The Dog Rufferee
11
There are Leprechauns in Those There Hills!
12
To Heaven and Beyond! A Con Brio Rock Odyssey
13
Snooker Marathon
14
Hula Hoop Champion
15
Death Dive
16
Come away from the Fairy RIng, O Builders!
17
Whiskey Galore!
18
The Spirit of Radio
19
Laughter is the Best Medicine
20
White Christmas
21
Guinness World Record Breaking Weekend
22
Clown Around at the Community Circus
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