Sealing Wax Stunts

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

491

Date Released

30 Oct 1930

Length of issue (in feet)

766

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Sealing Wax Stunts
2. 2Speed and Suppleness, by Rosie Moran, the well-known Dancer of "Sons o’Guns", London Hippodrome.
3. 3The Smallest Soul in Feathers
4. 4Coats of Note (in Pathecolor)
5. 5"Big Boys" - and Girls. Filmed at Leigh, Surrey.

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

NoS synopsis: "Eve can work wonders with a little sealing-wax - and imagination! For instance, this plain glass vase - " C/U of woman melting a stick of sealing wax over a burner then paints it onto the glass. The wax is then heated again and another contrasting colour is added. "The heat works the wax into odd designs..." The wax is heated over the flame. "Finished - and all within 30 minutes." Vase is shown to the camera. "Smart lamp-shades, too, with crêpe paper -" We are then shown how to make smart lampshades with crêpe paper. M/S of a woman sitting at a table cutting up sheets of crêpe paper. She folds the paper and stretches it. "A simple shape -" She paints glue onto a wire frame then sticks the paper over it. She then cuts around the paper. "Your design may be original, or you may cut out anything suitable. This one happened to be from a paper serviette." C/U of the shade with designs being stuck on. "Suitably coloured wax is melted in denatured alcohol...:" C/U of alcohol being poured into small jar. "- so that you get a quickly drying wax paint." Paint is stirred in the jar. "Paint both sides with the wax solution." Both sides of the lampshade are painted with the wax. "And when it is dried, you have a lampshade fit for any home!" M/S of lampshade with the bulb lit.

Keywords

Arts and crafts

Footage sources

Pathe Review   1924
Pathe Exchange

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.198
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No. EP198
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile   Issue sheet

Credits:

Production Co.

British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

208

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