The Silk Moth - the story of an insect that lives and dies for the Ladies.
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 6
- Summary
- NoS Summary - The beginning of silk stockings is investigated - silk moths.
NoS synopsis: "It’s a far cry from the sheen of silk stockings." Extreme C/U of a woman’s ankles. Camera tilts up to show her silk stockings. They have a seam running right the way up the back. "... to the silk-worm grubs that do the producing ..." C/U of silk worm grubs. "The silk grub’s only idea is to keep his inch-long body crammed full of milberry leaves." We see the silk worms eating mulberry leaves. C/U of them munching on leaves. C/U of a nest like affair covered with a silk web. "The young grub goes hunting for a place to sleep and spin ..." C/U of one of the grubs climbing around on a twig. Various shots of the maggot like creatures. "He settles away from the heart of the cuty on a neat suburban twig ..." "With the sure skill of instinct, he shapes his cocoon home ..." We see one of the grubs making a cocoon. "A month goes by - and then the miracle!" C/U of moth emerging from its cocoon. "The silk moth is hardly bigger than a finger-tip ..." The size of the silk moth is demonstrated as its cocoon and the moth itself are held between a human’s fingers. The moth is stroked and picked. The moth is pulled away from its cocoon then placed back on it. "You have seen the beginning of silk - you know the end." M/S of a woman fixing a stocking to her suspenders - she stands in front of a dressing table with large mirrors. C/U of the woman’s legs. - Keywords
- Insects
- Footage sources
- Pathe Review Issue No. 42/1924
Pathe Exchange
- Written sources
- Pathe Inventory File Tin No.195
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No. EP195
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue
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- Length of story (in feet)
- 203
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