From the Land of Lilliput

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

606

Date Released

12 Jan 1933

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1More Half and Half Pictures
2. 2Another Record-Breaker
3. 3From the Land of Lilliput
4. 4Wheels and Whirls
5. 5Loonie Lids

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

NoS Summary - group of dwarfs or midgets arrive at a German airport and pose
British Pathe synopsis: "Straight from the "Never-Never Land" to the "Will I never land." M/S of a German Luft Hansa (sic) plane landing at a German airport. The plane stops, the door is opened and a man steps out onto a small set of steps. He then helps two midgets from the plane. L/S of the plane, four midgets or dwarfs ride bicycles away from the plane. More midgets disembark. "One of the air’s queerest cargoes - 26 Lilliputians from 18 to 30 inches high!" M/S of the plane and the little people standing in front of it. M/S of some of the men cycling underneath the carriage of the plane. They pose by one of the wheels of the plane. "A wingfull!" L/S of the gang standing on the wing of the plane. They wave.

Keywords

Curiosities; Stunts

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.253
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP253
National Film Archive Catalogue

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Production Co.

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British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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