Learning on ScreenMechanical Maids / Mechanical Eve
Series
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- NoS Summary - A woman motorcyclist on a track.
British Pathe synopsis: "This is the age of mechanical proficiency for the fair sex - Eve today doesn’t mind side-stepping the milliner for robot-like creations like this - " C/U of woman putting on a motorcycle helmet. She smiles broadly. "The average girl’s acquaintance with a motor cycle rarely exceeded the pillion seat - now she wants the whole machine." M/S of woman tinkering with a large motorbike. We see the woman and her "tricky track riding" in slow motion. incomplete. - Keywords
- Women; Motorcycling
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- Pathe Inventory File Tin No.190
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP190 Used for synopsis
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