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Still from School in Scandal via EAFA

Identifier:

  • 2679 (Source: East Anglian Film Archive)

Date produced: 1930

Filmmaker(s):

Ben Carleton

George Sewell

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Country of Production:

United Kingdom

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:09:46

Length:

250 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Description:

"A group of upper-middle class young men (dressed in shirts and ties, one in a striped blazer) sit on the grass. They are idle and bored and missing women. An intertitle states that `there is not a bird in sight'. A group of young women from the Amena Stich private school, led by their bespectacled female teacher, is walking out for exercise. The men see them and life looks better. They hide behind a hedge as the women pass by. The young women stray on a side path leaving their teacher to walk on alone. She eventually notices her young ladies are not behind her and goes to look for them. Meantime the men and women have met up and all sit around on the grass, the women being chatted up. Professor Stephen Chickwood is in the woods looking for insects. He meets the teacher and offers help to find her girls. They form a relationship and walk hand in hand. Eventually they come upon the young men and women who laugh and point at them. Amena shouts `Help'" (EAFA Database).

Resources:

IAC Film Library Catalogue (Silent and Sound). Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, 1975.

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Repository:

Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection, East Anglian Film Archive

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