Dancing Grace

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

592

Date Released

6 Oct 1932

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Such a Dear Little Pet ... is Sheba
2. 2Dancing Grace
3. 3Eve - Here There and Everywhere
4. 4Holiday Pleasures
5. 5The Youngest Bathing Belle

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

NoS Summary - ballet dancer filmed in slow motion and suspended motion.
British Pathe synopsis: "The Cine-camera brings to the dancer, as in a frame, the grace of Slow Motion - the power that adds the gliding ability of suspended motion, (and multiple image)." Inside a picture frame device we see slow motion footage of a dancer. She is not named. She performs balletic steps and by means of a camera trick she appears twice in the frame. Various camera tricks are used including freezing the image and superimposing to ghostly effect. "Leaping and whirring in the glare of the light, the dancer is an appropriate subject for the moving art of the silver screen." The dancer is seen leaping then freezing in mid air. More camera trickery ensues.

Researcher Comments

BUND - Possible alternative date 6/10/1932

Keywords

Music and dance; Photography

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.247
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP247
National Film Archive Catalogue

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