Learning on ScreenFifty years Ago - The Evolution of Cycling
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
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- 4 / 7
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- NoS Summary - Short history of cycling - old bicycles with their riders suitably attired.
British Pathe synopsis: "Taken with the assistance of the Cyclists’ Touring Club." Introductory intertitle reads: "Fifty years ago, wearing a bustle and a pained expression, Eve took a sedate front seat." Travelling shot of a couple in Victorian dress riding on an antiquated bicycle. The woman sits on the front part of the bike whilst the man pedals at the back. "Nothing strenuous about this for Eve - Adam did the pedalling." Closer travelling shot of the vehicle. "The "Sociable", when the forward young Misses of the day dispensed with the skirt." "Later came the high "ordinary." L/S of man riding a Penny Farthing type bicycle. "The "Whippet" followed." Moving shot of a man riding a "Whippet" bicycle. Travelling shot of the bike being ridden by a man in old fashioned costume. "Happy days, when modern traffic was an undreamed of horror." The cyclists (plus two women in strange garb riding a side by side tandem) arrive at a pub. They park their bikes. "If they cycled through London today..." High angle shot of these old fashioned bikes being ridden through a busy London street. Large crowd of people observe and follow the cyclists. "...it would drive them back to the country lanes, where, like old soldiers, they would fade away." Shot of the cyclists riding off down a country lane. By means of a camera trick they appear to disappear. - Keywords
- Cycling
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- Pathe Inventory File Tin No.218
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP218 Used for synopsis
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