| WOMAN'S WORLD TODAY Cute American fashion (floral anklets) and strange beauty devices. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6706 | |
| Catalog #: | 371733 | |
| Clip Number: | 371733-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 20 | |
| Timecode: | 01:37:45 - 01:39:09 | |
| Location: | Atlantic City, New Jersey | |
| Year Shot: | 1928 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEAUTY CULTURE: Misc BEAUTY CULTURE/HAIR: Beauty Parlors BEAUTY CULTURE/HAIR: Treatment, Permanent Wave FASHION: Accessories, Misc LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New Jersey, Atlantic City | |
| Description: | WOMAN'S WORLD TODAY Beauty culture in Atlantic City, 1928. Fashion, hairstyles, etc. Opens w/ shot looking through arched window at big crowds walking along street. Lower shot of same. A line of odd little boxy mini-cars moving slowly on either side of the street, w/masses of pedestrians walking in middle. LS 10 fashionable women, wearing cloche hats & knee-length coats, walk arm-in-arm toward camera. MLS some other women pose each putting rt. leg forward to show flowers strapped to their ankles. CU row of shapely ankles w/ their floral anklets. Next some great beauty parlor scenes. MLS 3 women customers at the beauty parlor, each undergoing a different treatment at the hands of 2 male stylists and one female. MS brave woman getting old-fashioned permanent wave, masses of cylinders attached to rollers sticking out from her head, with a scary tangle of wires going from them straight upward to the rest of the machine. CU of this sci-fi look; the beautician is releasing the perm victim from the machine. CU another woman w/ marcelled hair sits smiling while beautician lowers a big partial cylinder over her head, perhaps a hair dryer? ECU eyelash curler being used. ECU woman smiling. Cosmetics, 1920s styles, feminine, fads, hairstyles | |
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