Eve Presents the Babies’ Band!

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

305

Date Released

5 Apr 1927

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1A Dainty Handbag
2. 2Eve Presents the Babies’ Band!
3. 3(Untitled record)
4. 4The Krazy Kat. (Not forgetting occasionally Ignatz, the Mouse.) By Bill Nolan.
5. 5(Untitled record)

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

NoS Summary - Young children play various instruments in a school playground.
British Pathe synopsis: Main title reads: "With the kind and gentle co-operation of the Musicians of this Theatre, Eve presents the babies’ band!" then following intertitle: "Behold! A band - a real one - small but choice. (It’s the band that amused the Queen at the Mary Ward Settlement, London.) " C/U of a small child (3 or 4 years old) conducting a band with a baton. C/U of a child’s hand on piano keys. It is a toy piano and the child bashes away at the keys. Dissolve into a child playing a drum. L/S of the band - group of roughly 15 children sit on blankets playing instruments whilst the conductress stands on a chair in front of them. C/U of some of the toddlers who play little hand bells. Another group of children play tambourines. L/S of the band playing frantically. C/U of one of the children pushing a small pram. Another one of the children holds a large teddy bear. The bear is put in a pram and then pushed along. L/S of the children running around in the playground.

Keywords

Music and dance; Children

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   14 April 1927 p50.
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.85
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP085 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue

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