Spinning Along

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

493

Date Released

13 Nov 1930

Length of issue (in feet)

666

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

NoS synopsis: "Any Sergeant Majors or Drum Majors here? If so, they’ll be jealous when they see this little girl - " reads the introductory intertitle. L/S of a woman spinning a rifle around at great speed. She throws it in the air and catches it and spins it around her shoulders and in the air. She wears jodhpurs, riding boots, a shirt and a tie. "The slow camera shows just how Mlle. Loyal does it." We see Mlle Loyal perform her juggling stunts in slow motion. The background to her act is a curtain - probably shot in the Pathe Studio. "A real grasp of the subject." The rifle is thrown, caught and spun in slow motion. Side view of the woman as she performs her tricks. Seen again in slow motion. A plate spinning sequence. A plate is spun on top of a whip balanced on top of another whip held in the girls’ mouth.

Researcher Comments

A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile.

Keywords

Performing arts

Footage sources

Pathe Re-issued British footage

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File Tin No.200
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No. EP200
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile Issue sheet

Credits:

Production Co.: British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

148

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