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Hand-Made Maidens!

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
467
Date Released
15 May 1930
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Hand-Made Maidens!
  2. 2Bigger and Better babies!
  3. 3Safari

Story

Summary
NoS Summary - shop dummies made and painted in Berlin.
British Pathe synopsis: Various shots of mannequins being made - we see excess plastic being trimmed from the waist of a model. L/S of bottom halves of mannequins lined up. "Moulding those girlish figures - " A model is pulled from a mould. C/U of man using a scalpel to scrape away at a mannequin’s cheek. "The ladies require a different kind of painting, said Mr Edmond Bohn." A mannequin is turned and paint or varnish is applied with a spray gun. Panning shot of men in the workshop painting hair and features of the models. L/S of a finished model. An artistically posed mannequin is turned for the camera.
Keywords
Arts and crafts
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.188
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP188 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue
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