| IS EVE GOING TOO FAR - IN ATHLETICS High School Girls' Track Meet | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6765 |
| Catalog #: | 434374 | |
| Clip Number: | 434374-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 210 | |
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| Location: | Great Britain | |
| Year Shot: | 1931 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Gender roles SPORTS: Women SPORTS/TRACK & FIELD: Misc. | |
| Description: | IS EVE GOING TOO FAR - IN ATHLETICS? "Certain medical quarters" fear that women are now becoming too athletic. Women's athletics meeting - some sports seen in slow motion. United Kingdom "Certain Medical quarters are beginning to consider seriously whether Eve, in her new-found freedom is not taking up athletics too strenuously." MLS teenage girls from track teams, wearing shorts and T-shirts, sit on grass; in FG one girl leans against her friend's knee. "Competitive running, nowadays, with every muscle strained to the utmost, becomes more arduous every year." Another view of girls relaxing on the grass. LS girls crouched in lanes at start of race. Race begins. LS pan rt. on 4 girls running in another race; crowds scattered in stadium seating. Pan on girls sprinting to left. "Hurdles, too, make the running harder - " Pan left on girls in hurdles race. " At one time the discus thrower was a man, but today..." MLS girl throwing discus. "Slow-motion adds its grace, but doesn't reduce the intense strain - " Slow motion footage of the woman throwing the discus. "The high jump, too, is another example of great momentary effort." M/S of woman performing high jump. Girl runs toward high jump at an angle and goes over the bar w/ scissor-kick. "Slow-motion shows the muscle action - " Slow-mo view of high jumper, shot from side of the jump. Jump just appears as vertical bar. "And the long jump - every day in every way, Eve gets nearer that 20 ft mark ..." Slow-mo of girl running, jumping in long jump. "The Javelin thrower is yet a further example of Eve's physical energy - and matchless grace." Normal speed shot of girl running toward camera & throwing javelin. Slow-mo side view of javelin thrower. | |
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