Skittlers All!

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

409

Date Released

5 Apr 1929

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Skittlers All!
2. 2(Untitled record)
3. 3(Untitled record)
4. 4(Untitled record)
5. 5(Untitled record)
6. 6(Untitled record)

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

NoS Summary - Women play a game of skittles - various shots of women bowling.
British Pathe synopsis: Opening intertitle reads: "Another invasion of Adam’s preserves - " C/U of row of skittles or ten pins being knocked over. C/U of woman holding a bowling ball. She looks up and smiles at the camera. C/U of another woman doing the same. "The kind of invaders Adam doesn’t mind - " Shots of women taking aim and throwing at the bowling alley. Filmed from very low angle by the women’s feet. First shot shows a strike. M/S of one of the women taking a shot. Reverse angle showing the ball rolling down the alley towards the camera. Various other shots of women taking their turn at bowling and of the skittles as they fall.

Keywords

Sport; Entertainment and leisure; Women

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   11 April 1929 p49.
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.108
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP108 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue

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