1953 Cuevas Ball with 18th century theme, and a German Shepherd rides a bike in 1953
Title card: Strange Things in the World / Biarritz, France: WS audience faces stage in background at the Cuevas Ball, the biggest post-war party in Europe / party host Marquis de Cuevas in curly wig and shiny shirt; photographer in puffy blouse behind him aims flash / photographers in period costume / actress Merle Oberon, as Fairy Queen Titania, walks across stage with Prince Ruspoli in gorilla mask, pantaloons, and floppy hat, as character 'Bottom' / young man in fez and harem pants leads camel onto stage bearing Zizi Jeanmaire, with her bare legs exposed; she moves a black feathered fan to reveal a glittery leotard / two men lead a burro onto stage, with gossip columnist Elsa Maxwell as Sancho Panza riding; one man is Martin Montes, dressed as Don Quixote / photographer in powdered wig aims camera / Maxwell walks down stage steps with costumed woman; man dressed as a conquistador carries a rapier as he accompanies them partway / 2-shot couple in French Revolution-period costumes; man lights a cigarette for woman / WS couples dance on stage / montage side views black man plays trumpet as couples dance / 2-shot dancing couple's faces / man in striped jacket dances with woman in high feathered headdress / MS his legs, in striped stockings / Kitchener, Ontario, Canada: dolly shot POV truckês passenger seat as man drives while smoking a pipe; German Shepherd dog enters shot, outside his window, and moves alongside the car; dog moves further to reveal that she is riding on a manês back / MS Glenn Steward rides his bicycle with dog Bonnie on his back as they move side-by-side with truck / POV from passenger seat showing man driving, with Bonnie and Steward riding outside the window / both vehicles approach camera; bicycle, with man and dog, passes by / Steward and Bonnie ride on street as onlookers watch; he stops at corner to let pedestrians cross / Bonnie pants while on Steward's back / bike with Steward and Bonnie passes camera as it rides on street
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DETAILS
Editorial #:
500707678
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
September 01, 1953
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:01:19:13
Location:
Biarritz, France
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr001106_03_01.mov
- Merle Oberon,
- France,
- Dancing,
- Foil Fencing - Sport,
- French Revolution,
- Women,
- 1950-1959,
- African Ethnicity,
- Ballet Dancer,
- Couple - Relationship,
- Film Montage,
- Stage - Performance Space,
- Wig,
- Actress,
- Adult,
- Aiming,
- Approaching,
- Archival,
- Audience,
- Biarritz,
- Bicycle,
- Biggest,
- Black And White,
- Blouse,
- Brightly Lit,
- Camel,
- Canada,
- Car Point of View,
- Carrying,
- Cigarette,
- Clothing,
- Columnist,
- Costume,
- Crossing,
- Crosswalk,
- Curly Hair,
- Cycling,
- Discovery,
- Documentary Footage,
- Dog,
- Don Quixote,
- Donkey,
- Driving,
- Drooping,
- Elsa Maxwell,
- Entering,
- Europe,
- Feather,
- Film - Moving Image,
- German Shepherd,
- Gorilla,
- Gossip,
- HD Format,
- Hat,
- Headdress,
- Humor,
- Jacket,
- Journalist,
- Kitchener - Ontario,
- Leading,
- Leotard,
- Men,
- Mode of Transport,
- Motion,
- Musician,
- Newsreel,
- Ontario - Canada,
- Pants,
- Passenger,
- Pedestrian,
- Performance,
- Personal Perspective,
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- Postwar,
- Produced Segment,
- Real Time Video,
- Riding,
- Sancho Panza,
- Shiny,
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- Side View,
- Smoking - Activity,
- Spectator,
- Stage Costume,
- Street,
- Striped,
- Sword,
- Trumpet,
- Video with Sound,
- Walking,
- Window,
- Zizi Jeanmaire,