Quick Feet - A "Slow Motion" Contrast 1925

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A group of women dressed in Grecian style costumes dance a "ring-a-ring-a-roses" in the open air.

Intertitle reads: "And just then, Eve turned on her special camera - and the twinkling feet slowed down to a new grace". We see the same dance in slow motion. Short segment. Story incomplete....

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
14681
Sort Number:
EP 055
Time in/Out:
01:24:17:00 / 01:25:28:00
Canister:
EP 055
Film ID:
852.14
Issue Date:

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