Cinetopicalities In Brief No. 108 (1940)

Titles read: “CINETOPICALITIES IN BRIEF“. Various locations of events. Library shots of the pit head working of a coal mine. M/S of an inventor from Sheffield with the model of a pit on which he demonstrates his mining safety device that stops a lift cage from falling if the cable should break. The lift cable is cut but the cage is held secure. (Location of events not specified - could be Sheffield?) In Venice, Italy, we see a brief shot of St Mark’s Square, then several shots of women taking part in competitions for speed typing, making and painting pottery, machine sewing and embroidery. Commentator says a diploma won at one of these contests is a passport to a good job. The women wear dark uniforms. M/Ss of the girls modelling dresses they have made in the dressmaking contest. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIR