And now meet the super Cyclist
Series
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 8
- Summary
- British Pathe synopsis: Alma Victoria - the Whirly Wheely Girl - is featured in this story. "Alma is one of those modern girls who seem to be brought up on a wheel - not a bottle." Alma does various stunts with a bicycle in the Pathe Studio. She does acrobatic contortions - wrapping herself around the bicycle, doing handstands on the bike, cycling on one wheel, and rolling over a man’s back as he grabs the bike. "Unlike the cycle, Alma is never tired." Two men spin a long rope and Alma "skips" on her bike. Alma does a stunt where she does a forward roll over a table and jumps back on her bike again. We see Alma "skipping" in slow motion. We see the forward roll over the table repeated in slow motion.
- Keywords
- Cycling
- Written sources
- Kinematograph Weekly 30 January 1930, p41.
The Bioscope 22 January 1930, p30.
Pathe Inventory File Tin No.181
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP181 Used for synopsis
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How to cite this record
'And now meet the super Cyclist', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 451, 23 Jan 1930. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/332339 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)