Self Defence, for Eve. Demonstrated by Captain Mortimer and Miss Daisy Holmes.
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- Pathe Intertitles - "Ever had a perfect gentleman snatch your handbag? It can be stopped -"
"And now for some self-defence methods. The gentleman who grasps you from behind -"
"Slow-motion will explain how, by grasping the attacker’s wrists and slipping downwards, the man may be thrown over one’s leg -"
"A frontal attack is just as drastically settled by these Ju-jutsu methods -"
"The weaker sex ... He! Ha!" - Researcher Comments
- A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile.
- Keywords
- Women; Physical fitness and training
- Written sources
- J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001) p128.
Pathe Inventory File Tin No.14
Pathe Eve 170-210 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue
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- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 200
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How to cite this record
'Self Defence, for Eve. Demonstrated by Captain Mortimer and Miss Daisy Holmes.', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 187, 1 Jan 1925. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/331184 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)