News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Around The Town

Issue

Issue No.

88

Date Released

4 Aug 1921

Length of issue (in feet)

750

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Yesterday and to-day No.1
• 2. In the Studio of the Hon. Neville Lytton
• 3. A few moments with Alice Brady.
• 4. Pheasant Rearing. Taken at the East Essex Game Farm
• 5. Some Novelty Sunshades -
• 6. Proverb Competition: This Cartoon No.10 represents a well-known Proverb, and is the last of the Competition.
• 7. A Short dance duet from "Puss Puss"
• 8. The latest fashionable pet. The Mongoose

Story

Story No. within this Issue

7 / 8

Summary

Summary - Joyce Barbour and Clay Smith in a dance from "Puss Puss"
NoS synopsis: ‘A Short dance duet from "Puss Puss" - Vaudeville Theatre by Joyce Barbour and Clay Smith’ intertitle with a cartoon of a man and woman. Elaborate Japanese-style background. Barbour and Smith enter, in evening dress. They take hands and dance side by side facing the camera.

Keywords

Music and dance

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   28 July 1921, p33.
The Bioscope   11 August 1921, p52.
Viewing Copy - bfi   Used for Synopsis
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998)   p14.

Credits:

Production Co.

Around the Town Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

35

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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