Beauty School

Duration: 9:00

Year Published: 1973

Complete Record: French language film. B/W of 20’s style women primping and watching the horse races, Color- woman walking thru office, CUs of signs on separate doors for Features Editor, Fashion Editor, Art Director, Woman enters screening room where 4 people watch- B/W shots of older footage. Editors discuss what they saw -- they are putting together a piece called “the changing face of beauty”. Art director paints a picture of a Gibson Girl in an Edwardian setting. This footage is frame within a frame- women walking/ showing off fashions, Applying make-up, Flapper woman on beach, Women by pool, Back to Color - 1970’s- Discussion in screening room between 4 editors, Painter drawing fashion from old books, B/W- drawing of woman dissolves into COLOR shot of posing beauty, formally dressed couple, 1920’s B/W shots of a woman getting a facial, man locking woman in room, B/W STILLS- of Cleopatra, Man and woman riding 1 bicycle, large DOG and a woman getting into early automobile, woman hopping into car and crowd waving the car off, COLOR- 1930’s - formal couple dancing, COLOR- CU of movie projector starting up, B/W- Woman on beach steps into canoe with a DOG, women in canoe, women outside at fashion show, shots of women posing, STILLS of 1930’s women movie star’s faces, COLOR shot of Lesley Macdonell, starlet, applying make-up and leaving her dressing room, B/W- 1950’s female coed listening to phonograph and studying, crowds dancing the twist, fashion show, COLOR- shot of crew shooting wood-paneled convertible pulling up to pick up red-dressed girl for the prom, COLOR- models wearing fur coats, MCS of arms with different bizarre watches, glitter make-up, parade of boots walk by, B/W couple interviewed at airport/ The Beatles arrive by plane, psychedelic Go-Go girl dances, 1970’s - Shots of Farmer’s Market, crepes being cooked at a table in fancy restaurant, equestrian show, woman driving yellow station wagon, detailed run through of woman applying make-up in mirror, Noxzema and make-up product shots, manicure. Made-up woman rides bicycle down tree-lined road.