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A Weighty Problem

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
42
Date Released
23 Mar 1922
Length of issue (in feet)
880
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1A Weighty Problem
  2. 2Peeps at The Lady of the Rose, Daly’s Theatre, London.
  3. 3Chic Shoes - From "Paree"
  4. 4The Dance of the Dying Swan by Mme. Karina (the Danish Prima Ballerina)
  5. 5Adventures of Bud and Susie -: Ma’s "Wipe Your Feet" Campaign
  6. 6The Adventures of Teddy Amongst the Alps. The first of a series of Pathecolor Studies.

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 6
Summary
NoS Summary - excercises for weight reduction.
Pathe Intertitles - "Eve’s weightiest problem to-day is how to get rid of it." Two shots
"Nothing to gain - about a hundredweight to lose!" One shot
"Mind you, Adam’s just as bad, ---" Three shots
"But, when they started running, you could feel the earth quiver for miles and miles ---" Two shots.
Researcher Comments
50/104 is noted next to this story on the issue sheet. A handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile.
Keywords
Health and medicine
Footage sources
Pathe News   Issue No.7439
Written sources
Kinematograph Weekly   16 March 1922, p54.
The Bioscope   30 March 1922 p.9
J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001)   p129.
National Film Archive Catalogue
Credits:
Production Co.
British Pathe Ltd.
Length of story (in feet)
90

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Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
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Notes
The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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Name
British Pathe Ltd
Email
info@britishpathe.com
Web
https://www.britishpathe.com/
Phone
0207 665 8340
Address
3.29 Canterbury Court
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London
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Notes
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