News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

509

Date Released

5 Mar 1931

Length of issue (in feet)

713

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Land Girls of Africa
• 2. A Sure Footing
• 3. "...the Village Smithy Stands"
• 4. Modes from Paris (Pathecolor)
• 5. Miss Japan Awakens
• 6. That Trouser Complex

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

NoS Summary - women wearing trousers as mechanics, walking, horse riding and running.
NoS synopsis: "Strictly between ourselves, all the trouble over the emancipation of women began when Eve adopted trousers. In Champery, Switzerland, the ladies all wore them." M/S of Swiss women walking through a mountain village all wearing work wear - trousers and jackets. The women all hold walking sticks. M/S of two of the women, the jackets button up with lots of small buttons. The women wear headscarves. "And Mary the Mechanic did likewise." A woman moves down the side of scaffolding by means of a pulley system. Looks like she is very high up. She waves at the camera. View of the scene below her - industrial scene. "Eve soon found out that skirts were a hindrance when training horses." M/S of a woman breaking in a horse. Various shots of the horse rearing up and running around the woman on a training rope. "This is really a he-woman’s job!" We see the woman in the saddle, the horse is still a bit flighty. "Even trousers shortened when Eve got going across country." M/S of group of girls on a cross country run. They wear shorts and sports tops. They jump over a ditch. "And football too, makes pants shorter - !" M/S of a girls’ football team running towards the camera with their arms around each others’ shoulders. Shot of a game in progress.

Researcher Comments

A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathe boxfile.

Keywords

Women; Fashion and costume; Employment

Footage sources

Pathe   Re-issue
Pathe News   Re-issue

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.207
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No. EP207
Pathe Eve 494-515 Boxfile   Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue

Credits:

Production Co.

British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

160

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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

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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Phone

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Notes

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