Naughtical Naughties

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

431

Date Released

5 Sep 1929

Length of issue (in feet)

965

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

NoS Summary - Girls train to be sailors - French school aboard a boat.
British Pathe synopsis: Introductory intertitle reads: "Shades of Father Neptune - a floating school for training lady-sailors! (Now tell us Sailors don’t care!)" L/S of 7 girls dressed in nautical outfits - white sailor tops, white trousers rolled up to the knee and jaunty hats. They are sitting on the boom. They all shuffle along and some jump off. L/S of the same girls climbing up rigging. "Real climbers - not social climbers - are these French pupils - " M/S of girls climbing up fixed rigging. Camera tilts up to follow them. Low angle shots of the girls clambering about the ship. C/U of one of the girls as she takes off her cap and laughs. High angle shot of girls working on deck as the boat moves out of the harbour. "The training ship "Alcyon" is the same type as the Newfoundland fishing boats, and practical experience is given the girls at sea." L/S of the boat sailing beside a jetty with a large municipal building in the background. M/S of two girls at the wheel of the boat.

Keywords

Education and training; Women; Navy

Footage sources

Pathe

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly 12 September 1929, p57.
Pathe Inventory File Tin No.110
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP110 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue

Credits:

Production Co.: British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

199

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