Finger speed!

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

277

Date Released

23 Sep 1926

Length of issue (in feet)

930

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Summary

NoS Summary - the rapid fingering of popular musicians, such as De Groot, Billy Mayerl and Alvin Keech (banjo).
Pathe Intertitles - "For years it seems to have been a moot point as to whether the rapid playing of a violin was the fastest thing in fingering -".
"These are the famous fingers of de Groot".
"The Billy Mayerl has frequently been guilty of exceeding the limit on the piano keyboard."
"Then we have Alvin D. Keech, probably the world’s fastest exponent of the "Banjulele" banjo -".
"The slow camera shows the accurate fingering -".
"A really fast foxtrot, changing to the "up-drag" stroke in waltz-time -".
"And the famous "feather" stroke in fox-trot tome -".
"A side view shows how easy the fingering is - (to our slow-camera!)".

Researcher Comments

A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathe boxfile.

Keywords

Music and dance

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly 30 September 1926 p59.
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998) p138.
Pathe Eve 246-280 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue

Credits:

Production Co.: British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

240

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