Eve’s Film Review presents Annette Kellerman in The Sylph of the Sea
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
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Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- Pathe Intertitles - "Annette Kellerman, the world’s premier aquatic celebrity, achieved that position because of her effortless poise in every bodily gesture."
"The "slow camera", recording at super-speed, cannot accentuate, but merely analyses, her grace."
"From no angle - not even from above - can the camera catch Annette in an ungraceful pose."
"In the air, Miss Kellerman is a picture of grace. And underwater her muscular control is equally remarkable. She moves about at will ..."
"The jack-knife is a difficult dive even with a long drop. Annette accomplishes it with ease from a 15-foot springboard."
"Halted in mid-air by the process-camera, Miss Kellerman reveals the perfect good form of every movement"
"To Annette, overwater or underwater work is as simple as breathing." - Researcher Comments
- A short handwritten shot list of this item appears in the Pathe boxfile
- Keywords
- Swimming; Performing arts
- Written sources
- J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001) p125.
Pathe Eve 246-280 Boxfile Issue sheet
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- Length of story (in feet)
- 360
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How to cite this record
'Eve’s Film Review presents Annette Kellerman in The Sylph of the Sea', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 257, 6 May 1926. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/331416 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)