Straight or Curly

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

482

Date Released

28 Aug 1930

Length of issue (in feet)

919

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

NoS Summary - An investigation of the difference between straight hair and curly.
NoS synopsis: "Why do some women have straight hair and others curls?" asks an intertitle. C/U of the back of a woman’s head. She has straight shoulder length hair. She turns her head and looks over her shoulder at the camera. We then see hair being combed. It looks like the back of a woman’s head but suddenly the head is thrown back and we see that the woman was leaning forward and brushing her hair downwards. She leans back and fluffs up her curly hair. "Scientists have found out the secret - in the laboratory." C/U of a scientist type looking through a microscope. "Take a straight hair and put between two glass plates - and then put under the microscope." C/U of this process. "What do you see? Under "low power", just a hair, enlarged." We see the enlarged hair under the microscope. "But, under "high power", you can see the six layers that make up the hair, and also the shape of the root." Shot of the hair under the microscope and the root (this actually looks like a drawing, not a real microscope shot.) "When a hair is pulled, a tiny section of scalp tissue comes with it. The micro-drawing shows how the hair "sets" in your scalp." A drawing is shown. "Now put a curly hair under the microscope. In cross-section we can see that the "core" is oval, and not in the centre." C/U of a curly hair being put onto the glass. We see what is purported to be the hair under the microscope. "A straight hair reveals a round core - not oval." "Looking at a straight hair, from its root to the pore through which it emerges, you can see that it shoots straight up. It has to, because of the round core." "The curly hair, however, with its oval core, comes to the top of the scalp in a curve. And that’s why, as it grows, it is "naturally curly!"." A cross section of the scalp is used to show how straight and curly hair grows differently. C/U of hair being combed.

Keywords

Science and technology

Footage sources

Pathe Review Issue No.24/1924
Pathe Exchange

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File Tin No.195
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP195
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue

Credits:

Production Co.: British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

294

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