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Social Climbers

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
551
Date Released
24 Dec 1931
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Social Climbers
  2. 2Dora the Daredevil
  3. 3Stars Off-Stage -: Miss Ursula jeans - The Well-Known Actress
  4. 4Treadmill Trotters

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 4
Summary
NoS Summary - monkeys at the zoo climbing a tree and a rope bridge.
British Pathe synopsis: "The other day Eve went back to the zoo to see a few social climbers. They were busy..." L/S of monkeys in a zoo enclosure climbing up a tree. Slow motion footage of them clambering up. Once at the top they climb across a rope bridge. "This must be where the one-way traffic scheme originated." Slow motion footage of one of the monkeys jumping over others on the rope bridge. "And just then the bell went for dinner!" The monkeys run down the tree again. Slow motion footage of them jumping off the tree.
Keywords
Animals
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.228
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP228
National Film Archive Catalogue
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