Mrs Guatemala Makes a Meal

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

253

Date Released

8 Apr 1926

Length of issue (in feet)

890

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Mrs Guatemala Makes a Meal
2. 2Living Paintings -: Early Days
3. 3Fleet-footed Steps that "Turned up", at the New Oxford, London.
4. 4If Summer Comes ...! A Fashion Pathecolor.
5. 5The Krazy Kat. (Not forgetting occasionally Ignatz, the Mouse.) By Bill Nolan.: A "Rum" Barber
6. *Living Pictures
7. *(Untitled record)

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

NoS Summary - a Guatemalian housewife preparing a meal
Pathe Intertitles - ""Mrs/ G" lives in a tropical clime, (just south of Mexico) where the food hange high." Two shots
"The youngest was bringing cocoanuts for Ma - who soon gets busy with a native machete." One shot
"For six hours mother grates the cocoanut -" Two shots
"- reduced to pulp, it is soon kneaded -" Two shots
"Everybody has eaten cocoanut cakes, but Mrs’ G’s cocoanut dough is unique..." One shot

Researcher Comments

A short handwritten shot list of this item appears in the Pathe boxfile

Keywords

Food and cooking; Customs and traditions

Locations

Guatemala

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   15 April 1926 p45.
J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001)   p128.
Pathe Eve 246-280 Boxfile   Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue

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Production Co.

British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

150

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