The Rising Generation

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

5 / 7

Summary

NoS Summary - Americans dancing on stilts in a nightclub.
British Pathe synopsis: L/S of a crowded dance floor where the dancers all wear stilts. Couples move around holding on to each other. C/U of the bottom of the stilts as one of the male dancers kicks his legs out. "Like the lift girl - they’re full of ups and downs - " L/S of the dance floor as one of the dancers takes a fall - her partner hangs on to her and almost manages to pull her out of the splits. Someone eventually has to give assistance. Low angle shot of the dancers. Couples fall over and the bouncers help them back up again.

Keywords

Music and dance; Curiosities

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   14 March 1929 p61.
The Bioscope   6 March 1929 p46.
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.108
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP108 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue

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