"Cuddles!"

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
490
Date Released
23 Oct 1930
Length of issue (in feet)
923
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Up in the Air!
  2. 2Mink and Minx! Filmed at High Wycombe.
  3. 3Bridge Coats. A New Pathécolor Mode.
  4. 4The New Midway Rhythm Dance. Demonstrated and explained by Santos Casani and José Lennard, the well-known Teachers of Dancing.
  5. 5"Many Inventions." Some cute ideas seen at the Institute of Patentees Exhibition.
  6. 6"Cuddles!"

Story

Story No. within this Issue
6 / 6
Summary
NoS Summary - babies having health checks.
synopsis: "If ever any figure is chosen to represent "Innocence" His (or Her) Majesty the Baby will be the one." High angle shot of a marquee type setting. Nurses and doctors tend to babies. A baby cries while a doctor presses down its tongue with a spatula. Closer shot of one of the babies. The doctor squeezes its cheeks. M/S of a baby crying, its mother picks it up and comforts it. "Just NoSles of trouble, but concentrated bits of affection for all the world of men and women, ‘bless ‘em." L/S of group of mothers with their babies. M/S of one of the babies being distracted by its mother. Another shot of mothers and babies. L/S of the group of mothers and babies. "Not so quiet on the vest and front -" Panning shot of lots of babies. One of the babies grabs another and pushes him over. Mother sets him right again.
Researcher Comments
A handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile.
Keywords
Health and medicine; Children
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.198
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No. EP198
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile   Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue
Credits:
Production Co.
British Pathe Ltd.
Length of story (in feet)
182

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