The Prettiest Girl We Know - The Magazine Cover Girl
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 5
- Summary
- Pathe Intertitles - "The Magazine Artist has a unique job. He picks pretty girls to draw - and attract everyone who looks at the "pretty-girl" ads."
"Lives there the man with soul so dead
Who ne’er to himself hath said ...
"I’d like to meet that girl!""
"Generally speaking, the "Magazine Girl" is synthetic - the arms of one, the ankles of another - the features of a third ... For instance - arms ..."
"When it comes to a perfect back, our Artist relies upon a certain Miss whose back is ... well, perfection."
"For figure, it is frequently necessary to take two girls ..."
"A blonde supplied one head -"
"And a brunette was another of "the prettiest girls" we know."
""But, one of my prettiest Magazine girls is this synthetic lady," said our Artist." - Researcher Comments
- A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile.
- Keywords
- Women; Curiosities
- Written sources
- J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001) p128.
Pathe Eve 170-210 Boxfile Issue sheet
- Credits:
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- Production Co.
- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 220
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - 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
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- Web
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- 0207 665 8340
- Address
- 3.29 Canterbury Court
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- Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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