Contrasts in Black and White, at Wembley

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

156

Date Released

29 May 1924

Length of issue (in feet)

890

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Contrasts in Black and White, at Wembley
2. 2Hope - for Summer
3. 3The Cucumber Girls
4. 4The Fashion Salon (Pathecolor)
5. 5The Adventures of Felix the Cat: Felix Puts it Over

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

NoS Summary - The difference between African fashions and European fashions.
NoS synopsis: "North or South - East or West, whether they’re dusky beauties from Africa or Europe’s modern maids - all have the same love of fine clothes - ". Four African women in traditional dress pose with five European women. "Perhaps next year this Empire coifure will cover the world," said M. Paul Poiret, the famous fashion creator." He takes a hat off one of the European women and shows his new style. He then speaks to the African women about the style and shakes hands with one of them. "But we’d like to known what the ladies really thought of these -" The African women are then shown some European fashions - one of the women laughs, the others looks very serious. The contrast between the styles of dress is quite apparent. The African women don’t seem very impressed!

Researcher Comments

Filmed at the British Empire Exhibition 1925.
A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile.

Keywords

Ethnic groups; Fashion and costume

Written sources

British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP057
Pathe Eve 131-169 Boxfile   Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue

Credits:

Production Co.

British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

130

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