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Grace & Rhythm - Andree & Curtis the International Dancers

Date released

5 Jun 1930

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

470

NoS ID

332448

Story no

3 / 4

British Pathe synopsis: Andree and Curtis perform an exhibition dance in the Pathe studio. It is a ballroom style dance with some acrobatics thrown in. Throws, lifts, spins etc. They wear evening dress....

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Celluloid Closet, The (1995)

Director

Robert Epstein; Jeffrey Friedman

Producer

Robert Epstein; Jeffrey Friedman

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £14.99

A documentary compilation of film clips and interviews covering 100 years of cinema, looking at the way homosexuality has been represented in popular cinema and tracing how stereotyes emerged. and includes...

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Strange Illusion (1945 Film)

Director

Edgar G Ulmer

Producer

Leon Fromkess

Film noir thriller B movie with loose connections to Hamlet. Paul (Lydon), has a recurring dream in which his father died in a car accident under mysterious circumstances and his mother (Eilers) falls in...

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A Whirl and a Spin with the Acro-Dancers! Andrée and Curtis.

Date released

3 Jul 1930

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

474

NoS ID

332473

Story no

6 / 6

NoS synopsis: "Slow-motion shows in detail that risky leap into her partner’s arms." In the Pathe studio the dancers perform an acrobatic dance routine. The dance incorporates lifts, twirls, spins,...

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Curtis Cup Nearly Ours

Date released

11 May 1936

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

543

NoS ID

034504

Story no

3 / 5

British women golfers tie with Americans. US retain trophy in third contest between countries.

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(Untitled record)

Date released

8 Oct 1929

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

440

NoS ID

334669

Story no

4 / 4

NoS synopsis: Dancers Andrée and Curtis

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British Women Golfers Win Curtis Cup

Date released

14 Jun 1956

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2639

NoS ID

046653

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list, 1 programme

British women beat Americans to win Cup for second time.

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In the Land of the War Canoes (1972 Film)

aka: In the Land of the Headhunters

Director

Edward S Curtis

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A romanticised saga of Kwakiutl Indian life on the northwest coast of America, filmed in 1914 by Edward S Curtis, who was already famous for his still photographs of Indians, and his writings about them. It...

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Forever in Time (1989 Video)

Producer

Robert W Mull

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Looks at the life and work of photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis, who documented the the traditional ways of the American Indians. from 1989 to 1928. Uses film footage of the time to place his work in context.

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Trotsky’s Home Movies (1992 Video)

Director

Oliver Curtis

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Commemorates the 50th anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination. Shows most of the surviving 45 minutes of Trotsky’s daily life filmed by family and friends in 1939. A discussion follows.

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