News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

597

Date Released

10 Nov 1932

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Modes of the Moment
• 2. Woolly Steeds
• 3. Seven Ages
• 4. Shell Flowers "From the Sea Shore"
• 5. Honeymoon Tree

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

NoS Summary - women make flowers from shells - then arranged in spectacular displays
British Pathe synopsis: "Once upon a time it used to be ‘She sells sea-shells’," said Mrs Francis-Lewis, "but, today, ‘she’ makes sea-shell flowers from the sea-shells - " M/S of two women sitting at a desk working with shells. Woman in the background fiddles with a flower arrangement - presumably made with shell flowers. C/U of shells lying on the table - they look like petals. C/U of woman using a metal tool to make holes in the shells. She then threads wire through the holes. C/U of the woman’s hands as she wires together several shells to make a flower. "A little paint" - M/S of woman sitting at a table painting the flowers. C/U of group of the flowers in a vase. Finishing touches are made with a paintbrush. "And there you are - " M/S of the two women seen earlier arranging flowers around the outside of a basket. L/S of the three women and a table full of their creations. "Shell flowers - almost indistinguishable from the real" M/S of an ornament - a woman wearing a large skirt made from the shell flowers. Dissolve into a basket with flower arrangement. C/U of a Japanese style flower arrangement with a dragonfly perched on the handle of the arrangement.

Keywords

Arts and crafts

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.249
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP249
National Film Archive Catalogue

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