The Water Walkers
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 5
- Summary
- NoS Summary - Water-walking boots are demonstrated by Mr Frodsham and a lady friend.
NoS synopsis: "Ambling down the river one day, we found the latest in water-walking boots." M/S of a man with strange canoe like contraptions attached to his feet walks on water. He holds a long oar for balance. "Like to try them?" said Mr Frodsham to our lady friend." C/U of Mr Frodsham showing a woman in swimwear his invention. She nods her head and laughs. High angle shot of the girl putting on the strange boots. C/U of her legs inside the boots. "- and into the great unknown strode she..." L/S of the woman "walking" on the water. Various shots of her moving through the water. "Walking on water’s all very well, but give me the old-fashioned way of getting along." She then takes off the boots, dives into the water and swims off. - Keywords
- Fashion and costume; Water sports
- Written sources
- Pathe Inventory File Tin No.194
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP194
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue
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- Length of story (in feet)
- 142
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How to cite this record
'The Water Walkers', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 482, 28 Aug 1930. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/332513 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)