| YOGA GIRL A girl demonstrates mastery of the mind over body - rests on bed of swords. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6002 | |
| Catalog #: | 37058 | |
| Clip Number: | 37058-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 26 | |
| Timecode: | 01:00:30 - 01:02:24 | |
| Location: | London | |
| Year Shot: | 1955 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/STUNTS: Endurance FASHION: Ethnic / Cultural LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London SPORTS/PHYSICAL FITNESS: Yoga UNIQUE PEOPLE: Eccentrics | |
| Description: | YOGA GIRL A girl demonstrates mastery of the mind over body - rests on bed of swords. London. "Yoga Girl" Rahnee Motie performs endurance stunts which the narrator refers to as "yoga" in her backyard, sometimes assisted by another young woman , both wearing Indian inspired costume. (Note: despite the name both women appear at least partly of W. European ethnicity, and narrator refers to her as a "21 year old English girl". ) MS of Rahnee Motie sitting on lawn meditating. (She is wearing a white bikini top and red harem pants, both in sparkly sort of fabric; she has 2 ''ruby' pendants - -one round her neck and the other on a string of pearls round her head.) "After her mind has been 'conditioned' by meditation, Rahnee becomes impervious to pain." CU Rahnee with hand held to head 'meditating'. MS of Rahnee camera pans down to her legs showing how they are crossed in lotus position. LS Of Rahnee she gets up and walks out of picture. MS of Rahnee walking into picture and going up to a seat of nails. CU of Rahnee sitting on nails. CU of Rahnee sitting on bed of nails - 1 camera pans down her body. CU Rahnee 's derriere in sparkly red pants still sitting on nails; then she gets up from seat of nails and she stands on them in her bare feet. MS of Rahnee's assistant attaching sword to a bed made of swords placed horizontally, sharp end up, which Rahnee is going to lie on. BCU of Rahnee's feet on seat of nails - she gets off. LS Camera following Rahnee as she walks over to bed of swords that assistant has prepared for her. MS of Rahnee meditating as she prepares for this next feat. MS of Rahnee meditating. MS of Rahnee laying down on bed of swords. BCU of Rahnee slowly laying down on swords with assistant holding her shoulders. MS of the assistant. BCU of Rahnee. MS Assistant bends down out of picture. BCU of assistant lifting Rahnee's head away from swords. She then inserts an apple against Rahnee's neck. Rahnee then leans back slowly pressing the apple against the sword blade, and the apple is cut neatly in half by sword, demonstrating that the sword really is sharp. Camera then pans down to the apple cut clean in half. | |
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