A Brush Up

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

429

Date Released

22 Aug 1929

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 7

Summary

NoS Summary - girls bathe a baby elephant and brush the skin of a camel.
British Pathe synopsis: C/U of a woman holding a very large scrubbing brush and a bucket. L/S of a group of girls - some in strange outfits - gathered around a camel. The camel is lying down in a zoo enclosure and the girls fuss over him, some of them brush his skin. M/S of the girls - they are kind of dressed like zoo keepers in baggy overalls - combing and brushing the camel who is now standing up. "You can lead 16 buckets to a camel, but you can’t make him drink" reads an intertitle. C/U of girl brushing the camel and laughing. C/U of the girls trying to get the camel to drink from a bucket. C/U of an a baby camel being stroked by a young woman. M/S of a group of girls in swimsuits giving a baby elephant a bath. They use long brooms to scrub the elephant and spray the elephant with a hose. C/U of a girl scrubbing his head. She scrubs his trunk. A zoo keeper stands behind.

Keywords

Animals

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly 29 August 1929, p31.
Pathe Inventory File Tin No.111
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP111 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue

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