Fox Movietone News Story 22-211

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.