Stepping Nowhere!

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

652

Date Released

30 Nov 1933

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

NoS Summary - Various exponents of log rolling demonstrate their technique.
British Pathe synopsis: "Stepping it" - yet getting nowhere - on the log route" M/S of two men log rolling in a lake. They both wear bathing suits. They fall in. "The camera, of course, cannot lie - but this needs explaining." By means of film reversal trick the men appear to suddenly jump out of the water and onto the log. C/U of their legs and feet as they roll. Another two men roll the log - one wears a boiler suit and does some fancy footwork. "The squirrel-cage act wants doing." M/S of man rolling on a large barrel. He turns it around on its end in the water, over and over. He eventually falls in.

Keywords

Sport; Stunts; Forestry

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File Tin No.274
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP274
National Film Archive Catalogue

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