Flying Legs - Filmed at Gravesend

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
525
Date Released
25 Jun 1931
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Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 6
Summary
NoS synopsis: Gravesend, Kent. "Grandmamma would need her smelling salts still more to get over the shock if she could only see the hard-running sporting Eve of today." M/S of a group of people sitting at the edge of a sports field watching the athletics. M/S of a girls running race. "Girls never ran like this in her day, poor dear!" Various shots of a relay race. Shots of a sprinting race. All the races have female only competitors. "Grandma might raise a smile when she saw Adam striding out so funnily." M/S of two men in a walking race. "But, Eve looks just as queer." Woman in walking race. "The only folk who haven’t changed much are the kiddies." M/Ss of children’s running races - first the girls and then the boys.
Keywords
Women; Athletics
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.214
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP214
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How to cite this record

'Flying Legs - Filmed at Gravesend', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 525, 25 Jun 1931. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/332748 (Accessed 13 Jun 2025)