| FANCY HEADGEAR - PHILADELPHIA (LNER) The American social set wear crazy hats at a fund-raising ball for the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6336 |
| Catalog #: | 254220 | |
| Clip Number: | 254220-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 38/2 | |
| Timecode: | 01:16:50 - 01:17:54 | |
| Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |
| Year Shot: | 1938 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FASHION: Costume/Masquerade/Fancy Dress FASHION: Formal / Evening Wear FASHION: Hats FASHION: Unusual LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia RECREATION: Parties, Social Dance, Ball | |
| Description: | "L.N.E.R. - PATHE CINEMA CAR - SPECIAL PROGRAMME" [superimposed over M/S of four steam trains coming towards us along the railway track.] "Fancy Headgear". Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. At the fund-raising Benefit Ball for the University of Pennsylvania Hospital we see men and women in evening dress wearing outlandish hats and head-dresses - American-Indian feathers, huge cowboy hats and so on. Prizewinners Mrs Price-Headly and Paul Dagler (?) sit chatting - she wears a crown on a frilled cap, he wears a globe of the world with international flags sticking out of it. Another socialite wears a length of cellophane over her head, tied with ribbons at the neck and crown. Fernanda Wanamaker wears a hat covered in flowers. Phyllis Dickinson wears a large brimmed hat covered with ferns. George Harrison wears a great hat of a skullcap with a plastic lady's foot and leg on the top! High angle shot of people dancing and wandering about at the ball (this shot could pass for any high society dance). | |
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