| PRIZEWINNERS Winners of Leg Contests Mlle | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6730 | |
| Catalog #: | 430016 | |
| Clip Number: | 430016-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 94 | |
| Timecode: | 01:01:51 - 01:03:13 | |
| Location: | United Kingdom | |
| Year Shot: | 1929 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEAUTY CULTURE: Ideals CONTESTS: Beauty LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK | |
| Description: | PRIZEWINNERS Funny film showing glamour girls flashing off their prize-winning legs. "Meet M'selle Pfanner whose shapely understandings won for her the Championship of Northern France." CU pretty young woman smiling, fluffing her waved hair; BG of water. MLS looking down at Mlle Pfanner seated on what looks like a bicycle frame mounted on floats. MCU her legs pedalling. LS Mlle P. pedalling, which makes the craft move around on the water. Title tells us that her legs are insured for the equivalent of £10 000! MS Mlle P. poses sitting w/ one expensive leg crossed over the other; river in BG. CU panning slowly up her sexy legs (in standing position). Next, we see some more female legs. MS Miss Barbara Newberry seen from waist down as she stands on cloth-covered steps while a man measures her legs - around the ankle, around the calf, distance from knee to ankle. Miss Newberry is the winner of the Ziegfield Follies annual "contest for shapeliness". CU Miss N. looks up at camera w/ a little smile. LS Miss N. in fashionable flapper dress and hat standing on the steps w/ cloth draped over them. She walks down steps and shakes hands w/ the old man seen previously taking her measurements | |
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