Fox Movietone News Story 22-211

Description: Item Description Fox Library Number Fox Movietone News Story 22-211 Title Elsa Maxwell on June ball for unemployed girls--outtakes Sound or Silent Sound Contributing Institution University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections Digital Collection Fox Movietone News Collection Collection Fox Movietone News Collection Filmed on or about 1934 Filmed on or about (end) 1934 Decade 1930 Date Note Filmed in 1934. Content Description Elsa Maxwell promotes a ball at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel for the benefit of Eleanor Roosevelt's club for unemployed girls. Scenes of Maxwell talking to Howard Chandler Christy, painter and sculptor. Maxwell introduces Countess Zoffala, Mrs. J. O'Brien and Miss Mary Taylor, who will attend the ball, while Christy sketches the women. Geographic Location New York (N.Y.) Subject Fund raising. Charities. Entertainers. Women. Maxwell, Elsa. Upper class. Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York, N.Y.) Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962. Keywords High society. Camera Crew Maedler, Dick (Camera operator) Newsreel Producer Fox Movietone News (Production unit) Physical Format Film: 16mm. Sound. B&W. Positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Variable-density optical. Acetate. Citation Elsa Maxwell on June ball for unemployed girls--outtakes. (Fox Movietone News Story 22-211.) Fox Movietone News Collection. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. Rights Copyright Moving Image Research Collections. All rights reserved. For further information please contact University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections, Columbia, SC 29208. Donor Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Time Period Great Depression (1930-1938) Type Moving Image Format video/H264 Media Type Motion pictures (visual works) Digital Specifications This standard definition .h264 video is an access copy derived from a NTSC videotape reproducing a film original which may not be still in existence.