| HAIR PAINTERS Mad hair painting session - highlights for women, painted hair for bald men! | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6026 |
| Catalog #: | 37870 | |
| Clip Number: | 37870-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 279 | |
| Timecode: | 01:09:10 - 01:11:26 | |
| Location: | Hounslow, Middlesex | |
| Year Shot: | 1960 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | BEAUTY CULTURE: Beard & Moustache BEAUTY CULTURE/HAIR: Baldness BEAUTY CULTURE/HAIR: Contests or Show BEAUTY CULTURE/HAIR: Men BEAUTY CULTURE/HAIR: Treatment, Color BEAUTY CULTURE/HAIR: Unusual BEAUTY CULTURE/HAIR: Wig, Toupee, Hair piece BEAUTY CULTURE/HAIR: Women LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Middlesex | |
| Description: | HAIR PAINTERS (aka HAIR PAINTING IS NEW CRAZE) Mad hair painting session - highlights for women, painted hair for bald men! Hounslow, Middlesex M/S of a group of ladies in evening wear seated in what looks like a ballroom at the Red Lion, Hounslow, Middlesex (musicians in the background); behind the girls are two artists wearing floppy berets and smocks; they are holding palates and paint brushes and are painting highlights onto the girls' hair. A row of women sit watching. C/Us of one of the artists and the dark-haired girl; he is giving her silver highlights. All the women have very structured and 'set' hairstyles - brilliant! M/S of another artist and model; C/U as he mixes colors on his palate, pulling back to show him applying it to the girl's hair. Low angle M/S of two models with an artist standing behind them; he paints the hair of girl on the left (who already has wonderful candy pink hair matching the flower on her dress) and then a young silver-haired girl on the right; C/Us as he puts some red highlights on her hairdo, toning in nicely with a dark pink rose pinned in her hair. M/S of two more girls sitting and having their hair painted - one is a redhead with an amazing gravity-defying hairdo! (It actually looks like a wig.) C/Us as a pinky-white color is brushed sparingly onto her hair and of the artist mixing colors on his palate. Commentator tells us this is "a light-hearted hair coloring competition, organized by Leonard Pountney of Hounslow, who, at the same time, set out to find a solution to the problem of bald heads among men". M/Ss of a man who could be LP or Ivor Spencer and a middle-aged lady enjoying the spectacle; then of a balding man, Michael Fernly, sitting beside John Dobson who is having his very long moustache combed and twisted by a young lady, Shirley Veitch. Commentator says his moustache "has a wing span of 25 inches and is still too short" (to tie over his head). Various M/Ss and C/Us of Michael Fernly having hair painted on his head by Audrey Dallas-Simpson, a commercial hair artist, using a dark colored greasepaint. ADS is wearing brilliant cat-eye glasses and a bright patterned shirt printed with the labels of drinks companies such as Bols and Schweppes. M/S of Leonard Pountney (or Ivor Spencer) and middle-aged lady watching and laughing. When finished MF has a whole head of hair much darker than his original color, with tufts painted around the forehead; it looks quite effective - if a little flat and shiny! M/S of a middle-aged couple in the audience; the woman fingers the man's sparse hair. M/Ss of ADS standing back proudly to show MF with finished 'hair'; a young couple in the audience applauding. M/S of the circle of male and female models having their hair painted by four artists in the ballroom. | |
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