We are all trying to economise these days, even the fair-sex have gone as far as to go without stockings, and now paint their legs instead ...

Series

Series Name

Around The Town

Issue

Issue No.

105

Date Released

1 Dec 1921

Length of issue (in feet)

750

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1At Home with Gregory Brown, the famous poster artist
2. 2The Jolly Dutch Girl
3. 3H. Grindell-Matthews, inventor of the new speaking and musical film
4. 4Fashions of All Nations
5. 5Sir John Martin-Harvey now appearing in "The Only Way"
6. 6We are all trying to economise these days, even the fair-sex have gone as far as to go without stockings, and now paint their legs instead ...

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

Summary - Cartoon
NoS synopsis: ‘We are all trying to economise these days, even the fair-sex have gone as far as to go without stockings, and now paint their legs instead _' intertitle with a cartoon of the back of a girl holding a paintbrush, and a pot of paint below. ‘Our camera man snapped this "bare" example the other day ---'. Film of a woman’s lower legs are shown standing by the back of a vehicle. She has bare legs and quite a wide skirt which ends just below the knee. She puts her foot up on the vehicle and then adjusts her shoe strap. '--- and here are a few designs which we think would suit some of the various shapes’. (Cartoon from now on). A man sits in front of a stage. A pair of legs belonging to a flapper appear on the stage above him and he paints a snake with an apple wrapped around each leg. Then a pair of fat legs walk on, and he paints hot air balloons on each. Then a pair of man’s legs appear and he gasps with horror. He paints one smiling and one frowning bearded man on them. The last pair are very thin with bloomers at the top. He paints them to resemble barber’s poles.
End title: (Stop motion animation) Close up of a table set for tea. The lid on the butter dish lifts up to reveal a small block of cheese. It spins and moves to the plate. A man’s face appears. He skewers the cheese with the knife and goes to eat it, but he pulls it away from his face because it smells! He then makes it vanish. Graphics spelling ‘THE END’ appear.

Keywords

Domestic life; Fashion and costume

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   8 December 1921, p58.
Viewing Copy - bfi   Used for Synopsis

Credits:

Production Co.

Around the Town Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

125

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