Cinetopicalities In Brief No. 77 (1939)

Titles read: “CINETOPICALITIES IN BRIEF“. Various locations of events. On the Pennsylvania railway, United States of America, we see a streamlined express train speeding along between Chicago and New York. The train company has cut rail fares to lure people to New York for the World’s Fair. Great shots of passengers on the train - being served drinks and tuning in the radio in the observation car, eating in the dining car and relaxing in their swivel seats in the regular car. A woman reclines in her Pullman seat; tracking shot along an aisle shows several attractive women in their seats. A couple dance to the music from the radio in a lounge car. Various shots at a pearl farm show the process of producing cultivated pearls. A seed pearl is inserted into the kidney of an oyster which is then put with others in baskets in water. The oysters are left for 7 to 15 years, then girl divers are sent down to retrieve them. C/U of an oyster being opened and a pearl being popped out. Artificial pearls