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Hon. Quick Change Artist. A brief interruption from Japan

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
481
Date Released
21 Aug 1930
Length of issue (in feet)
811
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Hon. Quick Change Artist. A brief interruption from Japan
  2. 2"Birds" - free and fancy
  3. 3"The Fur Sex!" - Some Latest British Modes (Pathecolor)
  4. 4Jumpers
  5. 5The Girls in the Boat
  6. 6With Eve to ‘Appy ‘Ampstead, London.

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 6
Summary
NoS Summary - A Japanese drag queen - or someone posing as one!
NoS synopsis: "They have their quick-change folk in old Nippon - here’s a gentleman to whom changing into a woman is but a brief breather in his day’s work -" M/S of a Japanese man kneeling down on a podium in front of a curtain. He has two drawers of clothes beside him. He puts on various items of clothing and turns himself into a Geisha Girl! He holds up a fan and purses his lips. Incomplete.
Keywords
Performing arts
Locations
Japan
Footage sources
Pathe Review   Issue No.12/1930
Pathe Exchange
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.194
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP194
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile   Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue
Credits:
Production Co.
British Pathe Ltd.
Length of story (in feet)
108

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Film Archive

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