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A Girl Prodigy

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
628
Date Released
15 Jun 1933
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1A Pup’s Life
  2. 2A Girl Prodigy
  3. 3Getting There
  4. 4All Together
  5. 5Teuf-Teuf!

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
NoS Summary - girl with hands tied behind her back pulls a boat full of men across a river.
British Pathe synopsis: "There aren’t many girls who can jump into a river like this little eight-year-old." M/S of small rowing boat. Several men sit in the back of the boat and a man and young girl stand at the front. C/U of the girl revealing that her hands are tied behind her back. She dives off the front of the boat into the river. She then swims along pulling the boat behind her. When the boat reaches the shore she is pulled out of the water and she stands on the edge of the river. "And when she’s done towing a boat along, "Florence" dives divers dives."
Keywords
Ships and boats; Children; Stunts
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.262
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP262
National Film Archive Catalogue
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