The Girls from Canada

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
510
Date Released
12 Mar 1931
Length of issue (in feet)
794
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1The Girls from Canada
  2. 2Mr. Stork Calls
  3. 3High Speed Cookery
  4. 4The Canoe Girls of Ngaruawahia (ahem!)
  5. 5Old and New - a Photographic Cameo
  6. 6Dainty Neck Adornments from Paris (in Pathecolor)

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 5
Summary
NoS synopsis: "We don’t need to go to Switzerland every time we want a snow picture - what about our Dominions?" M/S of various people in ski gear moving towards the camera. L/S of group of people setting off skiing. Little cafe advertising Ice Cream seen behind them. The skiers move past the camera. L/S of people skiing through a wood. "Not even a low temperature can keep down Eve’s high spirits in Canada." Woman falls over and skids towards the camera. M/S of large gang of people arm in arm skiing past the camera. Women walk past the camera on skis. M/S of a group of young people in ski gear standing in a line - conga style. Camera pans down to show that they are all standing on a kind of big multi person ski. M/Ss of people on sledges moving past the camera. "One just glides from one thing to another here - with sometimes a very full stop!" L/S of lots of people sledging down a snowy hill. One group fall off their sledge as they get close to the camera.
Researcher Comments
A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathe boxfile.
Keywords
Winter sports
Locations
Canada
Footage sources
Pathe   Re-issue
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.208
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No. EP208
Pathe Eve 494-515 Boxfile   Issue sheet
Credits:
Production Co.
British Pathe Ltd.
Length of story (in feet)
123

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