The Girl and the Turtle

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

405

Date Released

9 Mar 1929

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Girl and the Turtle
2. 2Stepping Out - By the Max Rivers Girls
3. 3(Untitled record)
4. 4(Untitled record)
5. 5The Rising Generation
6. 6Rolling Home
7. 7(Untitled record)

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 7

Summary

NoS Summary - Florida item of a girl and a turtle.
British Pathe synopsis: C/U of a turtle making its way across a sandy beach. C/U of the turtle as it moves towards the camera. The turtle reaches the sea and has a little swim in the shallow water. Intertitle reads: "Very undignified for a turtle of the best family" - shot of a turtle on its back waving its legs in the air. Woman approaches the turtle and goes up close to it (it is about 4 foot long). The woman kneels down beside it then struggles to turn it over. "A modern version of a very old fable." Two young boys sit in go-carts which they have attached to two turtles. They whip the turtles to make them move along the sand.

Keywords

Children; Animals

Locations

United States of America; Florida

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   14 March 1929 p61.
The Bioscope   6 March 1929 p46.
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.107
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP107 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue

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