My grandmother Sophie Pescovitz died when I was 2-years-old so I was blown away to see her in these outtakes from a crazy 1930 newsreel in which she demonstrates a bizarre “weight loss” machine! Bubbie Sophie says with a wink, “Won’t my husband love me now when I get home? You know, they like them thin!”
“Stout ladies try weight reduction” (Moving Image Research Collections at University of South Carolina, thanks cousin Irene Lilien!)
