Dance Factory

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

380

Date Released

13 Sep 1928

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1(Untitled record)
2. 2(Untitled record)
3. 3(Untitled record)
4. 4Dance Factory
5. 5Sammy and Sausage cartoon: A Big Draw

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

NoS Summary - Max Rivers training his dancing pupils from an early age.
British Pathe synopsis: Chorus girls do high kick routine on a small stage. C/U of their legs as they kick out towards the audience. They wear little gingham shorts and gingham tops and all have short bob haircuts. More high kicking and dancing. "Only loose limbs will enable a girl to attain this "high art". One girl stands centre stage and kicks her leg up very high indeed. Three other girls stand and watch with their legs crossed. The girls look quite young. Intertitle states: "All dance teachers believe pupils should start young." M/S of three pupils doing handstands and going right over into "crab" position. They stand up and repeat the acrobatics. Max Rivers gives tuition to a girl dancing in black shorts and top - she is doing some show style tap dancing. She looks into a mirror as she practices her steps.

Keywords

Education and training; Music and dance; Children

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   20 September 1928 p64.
The Bioscope   19 September 1928 p58.
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.101
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP101 Used for synopsis
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998)   p217.
National Film Archive Catalogue

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