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Winter Nymphs

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
504
Date Released
29 Jan 1931
Length of issue (in feet)
858
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Winter Nymphs
  2. 2Take a Step!
  3. 3Negligee and Otherwise (A Pathecolor Mode.)
  4. 4Little People
  5. 5Women of Persia
  6. 6Whirls and Taps from the Song of the Drum

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 6
Summary
NoS synopsis: Title states "Filmed at Ken Wood, London" (Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath). A story about "all-the-year-round bathers." "Not ladies who play touch and go with the cold water - but hardy all-the-year-round bathers." M/S of girls in running gear jogging around the side of one of the bathing ponds on Hampstead Heath. The girls wave at the camera. "Air temperature 34 degrees - water 39 degrees - with a permanent sinking feeling in the mercury." A woman in a mackintosh pulls a thermometer out of the water to show the temperature. The girls take off their outer garments to reveal swimsuits. They dive in and we see them splashing and swimming about. "About the best time in the water is out of it! (As Paddy might put it!)" M/S of the girls standing together and having a cup of tea. The girls laugh. C/U of one of the girls drinking tea, looking very cold and being rubbed down by another, older, woman. "Modern Spartans!" A group of the girls link arms and jog up and down. The girls then do leap frogs over each other.
Keywords
Women; Water sports
Locations
London; England; Hampstead Heath; Kenwood
Footage sources
Pathe
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.205
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP205
Pathe Eve 494-515 Boxfile   Issue sheet
Credits:
Production Co.
British Pathe Ltd.
Length of story (in feet)
168

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Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
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Web
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Phone
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Fax
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Address
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Notes
The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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Name
British Pathe Ltd
Email
info@britishpathe.com
Web
https://www.britishpathe.com/
Phone
0207 665 8340
Address
3.29 Canterbury Court
1-3 Brixton Road
London
SW9 6DE
Notes
Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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