A parade of women in formal and everyday dresses from bygone eras march past the camera. A shot of several women in old-fashioned long dresses stand spaced apart on a lawn. From behind them step younger women in modern dresses cut up to the knee. They step in front of the older women. A funny scene with one older woman in the old-fashioned dress and a young, modern woman. The younger one smokes a cigarette while the older one takes it from her mouth and throws it to the ground. They both giggle. This is great fashion/feminism footage.
Swimsuit Fashion show. Several young women model the latest in swimsuit fashion from 1929. The show takes place outside and a lrage crowd appears to be dining in the background while the girls awkwardly turn and pose in front of a fountain.
Master 1 - Tape 2 1920s middle-class life: man tries on new suit at a tailors; men around him compliment him. He struts, smiles, looks pleased and confident. Fashion. Cut to a man walking out of his home, down his front sidewalk, and dissolve to him getting into his late-1920s Buick coupe (in the passenger side, and scoots over. Another man leaves an old classic car, shutting the door, and walking up the steps of a building.
Excellent montage of men & women performing daredevil stunts: two flappers wearing overalls & high heels dance atop covered steamstack; another flapper dances the Charleston while riding on biplane in flight; man is blindfolded, scales skyscraper building; barefoot man in tank top does one-armed handstand on ledge high above busy city street; MS man sitting in precariously balanced chair stacked onto another chair high above city; great shot of man balancing atop building billboard, large American flag billowing in wind in BG; man walks on stilts on steel beam over city; great montage of cars & motorcycles being driven through burning walls, into water hazards or through debris; biplane is flown into a small house; cars leap over other cars or buildings, only to crash or flip splendidly. Barnstorming and other reckless behavior meant to cheat death.
The first Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1921: TLSs contestants in short knee-length skirts, swimsuits, strutting their stuff on boardwalk; MS two horny old white men passing binoculars; MS winners drinking out of trophy cups, offering the camer randy glances; MS Miss Pennsylvania posing atop building, skyscrapers in BG; CU Miss Pennsylvania removing hat, showing off bobbed haircut-- ah, the flapper look.
Master 1480 - Tape 2 MS young white female flapper wearing black one-piece bathing suit (swimsuit, swimwear) with white belt & dark kerchief on head, standing by wooden post on Eastern seaboard beach while struggling to remove life preserver (lifering, life ring, rubber ring) from waist & derriere.
Same as catalog #313084 MS young men and women seated at table having fun drinking alcohol. CU woman taking sip from glass. CU of hands pouring liquor out of flask into glasses, a warning message is superimposed over the beverages. CU woman exhaling cigarette smoke with image of man's hand holding lighter superimposed. Images dissolve into hands gently agitating champagne on ice. Image dissolves into hand pouring champagne into glasses. MS young men and women seated at table, man lights a cigarette. Shot of show girls performing dance routine. Nice look at late 20's-early 30's lifestyles and fashion.
Ladies Board Train United States Three young women in late 1920s-style fashion and dressed in drop-waist, flapper dresses and cloche hats (flapper look) exit a building and smile. They each have short hair (bobs, bobbed hair) and their style is boyish. MS Group of women laugh and smile as they stand on a rail platform in front of a stationary train. Other passengers, all in fine attire and head-hugging hats, wait anxiously for their chance to board the train. Group of women wave from the door of the train to others on the platform. The train pulls away from the station. A group of children laugh amongst themselves as the train drives off. MS Train moving away from the camera. MS Engine of a train travelling toward the camera. A conductor stands in the doorway of the moving train. VS Train moving on the tracks.
GV parlor as Billy walks back to the couch to wait for an open telephone, woman seated there stands up & walks off, Billy takes a seat, as he fantasies about the woman he is waiting to call a stylish woman in great flapper dress & hip waddle strut enters the scene. MCU woman. MCU Billy gawking at woman. MCU woman making goo-goo eyes. MCU Billy smiling. MCU woman rolling her shoulder in a flirty way. MCU Billy getting giddy. MCU as Billy stands up from the couch & offers the flapper lady a seat. MCU Billy & flapper lady seated on couch, woman tries to read the message on the calling card Billy holds, scooting closer to him until there is no more couch, a nervous Billy tears the calling card up & tosses the pieces into the air.
Roaring 20s Montage GV/MS female dancers performing floor show with short skirts and high kicking. MCU men and women drinking table drinking alcohol, looks like speakeasy. CU flapper woman giving a huge smile after drinking some booze. MCU cocktails being poured. CU woman exhaling ciggarette smoke. CU Champagne bottle getting chilled and poured into glasses. MCU man lighting cigaerrtet, next to him are two beautiful flapper women with botles of hard liquir in front of them. GVs floor show with women high kicking.
