Posture! (1940)

Titles read: “POSTURE!“ New Jersey, United States of America. Various shots of girls from a US academy in black swimsuits or leotards prancing about a field. They do some star jumps (not looking particularly graceful!), then run this way and that in lines, in what the commentator calls “the art of the graceful exit“. A girl in a white swim hat, white bandeau top and snug shorts poses with a cut-out of a ram (?) as “a modern Diana, symbol of the grace and beauty that comes from ordered movement“. This ’living statue’ poses with a spear, then a tennis racket. She tosses the racket on the ground and poses with a lacrosse stick - it looks very funny! 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 ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000