The Keep Fit Brigade
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
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- 4 / 6
- Summary
- NoS Summary - women doing various exercises, boxing, doing high kicks on a man’s arm! "The Girl Friend" chorus in training.
British Pathe synopsis: Fred Dyer - famous welterweight and Physical Culture Expert takes a group of chorus girls through a vigorous exercise programme. They skip with ropes, throw a medicine ball to each other in a circle, hit a punch-ball, perform sit ups, air cycling and high kicks etc. One of the women spas with Fred in the boxing ring and knocks him over. By means of a camera trick (optical printing), the girls appear to dance on Fred’s arm. - Keywords
- Music and dance; Physical fitness and training; Photography
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- Kinematograph Weekly 13 October 1927 p69.
Pathe Inventory File Tin No.14
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP014 Used for synopsis
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How to cite this record
'The Keep Fit Brigade', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 331, 5 Oct 1927. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/331711 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)