News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

456

Date Released

27 Feb 1930

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. This Freedom!
• 2. (Untitled record)
• 3. Latest in Holland
• 4. The Hare and the Hounds
• 5. Peasants in Mountain Village
• 6. (Bottled Sunshine)

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

NoS Summary - sunbathers under artificial sunshine at Bournemouth Indoor Gym.
British Pathe synopsis: M/S of man standing in a conservatory. He switches on a large vertical light - it is a sun ray lamp. Camera tilts up to show two other large lights hanging from the ceiling. "Synthetic sunshine is so bracing..." A group of young women and a man play leap frog inside the conservatory - there is sand on the floor. They then have a tug-of-war. The man and one of the girls turn a long skipping rope and some of the others skip together. M/S of one of the girls doing a Charleston whilst others clap their hands to some music. M/S of some of the girls dancing together. "Outside, Old Man Sol is supreme." M/S of girl sitting by a window in her swimsuit. She reads a magazine and smokes a cigarette. Through the window we can see a seaside view - sea, pier and promenade. Some of the other girls look out of the window. "A Scientist might mention the spectrum of this bottled sunshine was just the same as outside, but outside you couldn’t lie about like this, and eat ice cream in winter!" M/S of the girls lounging around. They hold parasols and eat ice cream from little glasses. C/U of two of the girls, one lies on her stomach wiggling her legs around, the other eats ice cream from a bowl. C/U of another one of the girls eating ice cream and playing with a toy dog. She pretends to feed the dog some ice cream then looks at the camera.

Keywords

Fashion and costume

Locations

England; Hampshire; Bournemouth

Written sources

The Bioscope   26 February 1930, p32.
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.183
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP183 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue

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