Walks And Walkers - A Piccadilly Circus Study (1923)
A stationary camera records people in slow motion walking in Piccadilly Circus, London.
Two women cross the road, they look at the camera as they pass. Slow motion footage of a horse drawn vehicle passing a policeman. Intertitle reads: “But, really, the cream was Auntie.... in a terrible hurry...“ A middle aged woman runs across the road. A car just begins to move across the frame. Story incomplete.
Note: flash-frame intertitles.
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