Here Comes the Bride: Miss Nippon’s Day.
Series
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 5
- Summary
- NoS Summary - Japan and her marriage customs.
Pathe Intertitles - "In Japan, the bride’s wedding gown is of heaviest silk, often an heirloom passed from generation to generation -".
"The real wedding is solemnized in the groom’s home. Groom and bride sip three times each from a saucer of saki."
"Last of all comes the ceremony of the burning candles. The symbolism is that the two lives are new as one ... and may they live happily ever after!" - Researcher Comments
- A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathe boxfile.
- Keywords
- Customs and traditions; Marriages
- Locations
- Japan
- Written sources
- Kinematograph Weekly 1 April 1926 p32.
J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001) p127.
Pathe Eve 246-280 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue
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- Length of story (in feet)
- 220
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How to cite this record
'Here Comes the Bride: Miss Nippon’s Day.', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 251, 25 Mar 1926. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/331387 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)