| WHO SAID WE CAN'T MAKE BRITISH PICTURES? Quirky item showing students play acting being Hollywood movie makers. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5331 |
| Catalog #: | 247779 | |
| Clip Number: | 247779-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1266 | |
| Timecode: | 01:01:11 - 01:02:36 | |
| Location: | Exeter, Devon | |
| Year Shot: | 1926 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/MOTION PICTURES: Misc FESTIVALS: Students Rags LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Devon | |
| Description: | Who said we can't make British Pictures? Joyous Students, in Annual 'Rag', tackle subject of the day, to show British Producers ... 'just how'. Exeter, Devon. Students pretend to make a feature film as part of rag parade. M/S of steps to the entrance of university building where group of students act out scene of Hollywood movie set; two men operate cameras while a man dressed as a villain attacks and carries off a girl reading a map, another man with a large cap and big cigar walks on set (presumably the 'director'). M/S of a street; the 'cameramen' are filming a couple dancing and two men duelling with swords, a woman runs on set screaming. C/U of the two cameramen at work (cameras look real but could be fake props). A man in britches shouts through a megaphone, in the background is a crowd of amused onlookers. M/S of the movie set; the dancers have gone but the sword fight continues, a comedy criminal holds a woman hostage with fake gun. One of the dualists stabs the other and rescues the damsel in distress! C/U of a woman melodramatically attending to the stabbed dualist, in the foreground a 'cameraman' films the event. The woman weeps and tries to feed the injured man with a baby's bottle, the director passes her a whiskey bottle which she also gives to the man - very bizarre. . | |
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