A scarce original 16mm Lawn Tennis film (c1940), in black and white, with sound, featuring rare commentary from the voice of Bill Tilden, throughout t

A scarce original 16mm Lawn Tennis film (c1940), in black and white, with sound, featuring rare commentary from the voice of Bill Tilden, throughout the film he describes one of his matches during the World Hard Court Professional Championships and also demonstrates and coaches a young player who is watching from the side of the court, the spool holds two associate short films, the first ''Bill Tilden's Tennis for Beginners'', the second, ''Bill Tilden's Advanced Tennis'', in the first film Tilden guides a young protege through the rudiments of the forehand, backhand and service strokes, giving demonstrations (often in slow motion) and sound verbal advice, the film appears to have been made at a club either in California or Florida, evident by the abundance of palm trees; in the second film Tilden relates advice on the net game, volley, smash and American twist serve, here and there one can detect the damage caused to one of Tilden's fingers during his early years, a fact he was always eager to conceal, narration and supervision is by Bill Tilden, photography by Phil E. Cantonwine, edited by Adrian Mosser and Directed by Julian Peysner; the lot includes a DVD copy of the film (2)