Vision - Our Cameraman Sees Things

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

583

Date Released

4 Aug 1932

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Plumes of the Pampas
2. 2In - Out!
3. 3Vision - Our Cameraman Sees Things
4. 4It Won’t be a Hard Winter - in these Coats

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

NoS Summary - girls from 1893 do a high kick routine, then girls dressed 1932 style do the same.
British Pathe synopsis: "A memory from the past - " L/S of a Roman style building with columns and stone steps. Women wearing old fashioned clothes c1893 are superimposed by a camera trick so that they look like ghosts walking around the old location. M/S of the women gossiping with each other and looking at the building. "Spirits of 1893!" They stand at the bottom of the steps, lift up their long skirts and do a high kick routine. "But, this is just a cinematographer’s fanciful dream." Closer view of the girls dancing. They end their little routine with a dainty curtsy. "He was really sent out to picture these fair moderns..." The dancing girls magically appear on the steps again, this time in 1930s style dancing outfits - very short light coloured frocks. They do a high kick routine, slowly making their way down the stone steps. "See what the grass will produce here." C/Us of the girls lying in the grass exercising by stretching their legs in the air.

Keywords

Music and dance; Fashion and costume

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.243
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP243
National Film Archive Catalogue

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