| ELECTRIC WOMAN Remarkable footage of a woman who produces electricity with her body. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6704 | |
| Catalog #: | 371190 | |
| Clip Number: | 371190-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 10 | |
| Timecode: | 01:31:58 - 01:34:24 | |
| Location: | Unknown | |
| Year Shot: | 1920 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/STUNTS: Endurance INDUSTRY/POWER & ENERGY: Electricity | |
| Description: | ELECTRIC WOMAN Remarkable footage of a woman who produces electricity with her body. Wild show by "Thelmina" and her Partner George Rathbone who perform all sorts of bizarre and dangerous-looking stunts with electricity. "Here's a lady who thrives on sparks - like these (about 500,000 volts.)" A weird machine (electric generator?). First there is a glowing jumping light at the bottom, then sparks from bands around a cylinder above. Then a shot of one of those electrified balls with a rod being moved around it causing a thing like a lightning bolt to dance between them (Tesla coil). Closer shot of this. LS crazy daredevils Thelmina & George onstage in front of generator. They take a pipe with lightbulbs attached to it and each put an end in their mouth while he leans down touching a sword to something, then she touches the generator with another sword and PRESTO the bulbs light up! Talk about 'Electric Ladyland!' For her next trick holds sheet of metal in her mouth and when a wand or sword is touched to it crazy lightning jumps all over the sheet. MCU T's legs: she lifts one foot behind her. Then the rod (with wadded up paper impaled on it) is held up to her heel and the paper catches fire! MCU T's back. The rod, the sword and a glass thing are each held up to her back, causing sparks to fly off her skin. Finally, CU T. and GR, each w/ cigarette in mouth, move together so that the cigarettes are c. 1 inch apart; they are completing a circuit. Electric current dances around between the cigarettes, causing them to catch fire. (Titles do warn against trying this 30.000 volt method of lighting a cig. ) | |
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