News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

490

Date Released

23 Oct 1930

Length of issue (in feet)

923

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Up in the Air!
• 2. Mink and Minx! Filmed at High Wycombe.
• 3. Bridge Coats. A New Pathécolor Mode.
• 4. The New Midway Rhythm Dance. Demonstrated and explained by Santos Casani and José Lennard, the well-known Teachers of Dancing.
• 5. "Many Inventions." Some cute ideas seen at the Institute of Patentees Exhibition.
• 6. "Cuddles!"

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

NoS Summary - babies having health checks.
synopsis: "If ever any figure is chosen to represent "Innocence" His (or Her) Majesty the Baby will be the one." High angle shot of a marquee type setting. Nurses and doctors tend to babies. A baby cries while a doctor presses down its tongue with a spatula. Closer shot of one of the babies. The doctor squeezes its cheeks. M/S of a baby crying, its mother picks it up and comforts it. "Just NoSles of trouble, but concentrated bits of affection for all the world of men and women, ‘bless ‘em." L/S of group of mothers with their babies. M/S of one of the babies being distracted by its mother. Another shot of mothers and babies. L/S of the group of mothers and babies. "Not so quiet on the vest and front -" Panning shot of lots of babies. One of the babies grabs another and pushes him over. Mother sets him right again.

Researcher Comments

A handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Children

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.198
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No. EP198
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile   Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue

Credits:

Production Co.

British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

182

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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Phone

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Address

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Notes

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Web

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Phone

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Address

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Notes

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