TT: A peep into the past

Readers of Brad Gooch’s recent biography of Flannery O’Connor will recall that he describes in the first chapter a 1932 Pathé newsreel in which the five-year-old O’Connor showed off a chicken that she had taught to walk backwards. The experience, she recalled years later in an essay called “King of the Birds,” “marked me for life.”
Sad to say, this newsreel has yet to make it to YouTube, but you can view it online by going here.
You will notice, incidentally, that the anonymous author of the program note for this clip, which is available on British Pathé’s Web site, clearly doesn’t know that the “Mary O’Connor” portrayed in the newsreel is the same person who grew up to be one of America’s greatest writers. O tempora!