Water Panto

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

690

Date Released

14 Mar 1968

Date recorded

8 Feb 1968

Length of issue (in feet)

675

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Water Panto

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

Pathe synopsis: "I hope you’ll forgive me for speaking in rhyme For today we’re presenting our own pantomime." And it’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - not in the theatre, not on ice, but on water skis on a disused and flooded quarry near Reading. There’s all the acrobatic fun of Pam Horton’s water ski show, with the Snow White story followed through. There’s a dwarf ski-ing on his bare feet, Snow White on a flying trapeze on water skis. There’s the wicked Queen out to kill Snow White and the North Country commentator says: "The plot she was hatching was not learnt in chapel For she’s nobbling Snow White with a big poisoned apple." It’s all like that, interlacing some brilliant water ski spectacle and telling the old story in a medium that is unexpected to say the least.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Entertainment and leisure

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

615

Story extras:

Film clip

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