When we Were Young

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

462

Date Released

10 Apr 1930

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Are we going back
2. 2When we Were Young
3. 3(Untitled record)
4. 4(Untitled record)
5. 5Lithe Exercises
6. 6(Untitled record)

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

NoS Summary - tracing the fashions and styles in dancing.
British Pathe synopsis: Introductory intertitle reads: "When we were young and the spirit of dance was afoot." Young woman in a ballet tutu dances around an ornamental garden with fountain and statues. Ballerina teaches a young girl some steps (the girl is probably 2 or 3 years old). C/U of the two dancers on some stone steps. The two then dance - the mother on points, the daughter on tiptoe. "Simple and sedate - different to the time the Charleston first took our fancy - " Two young dancers (about 4 or 5 years old) do a Charleston. Then we see a group of people dressed in the costume of the 1830s doing a very formal dance in the open air. Most of the dancers are children.

Keywords

Music and dance; Fashion and costume

Written sources

The Bioscope   9 April 1930, p39.
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.186
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP186 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue

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