Mass Athletics Meeting AKA In Perfect Unison (1920)
Prague, Czechoslovakia. Intertitle: IN PERFECT UNISON. More than 10, 000 young athletes perform in the Stadium at Czecho Slovak sic festivities. Iris opens on high angled shot of ranks of women in identical dress marching. High angled L, S of the ranks of women walking into an enormous open air sports stadium, as they reach the centre of the field the ranks divide in two and march in opposite directions. L, S of the thousands of athletes marching around the stadium creating a large starlike formation. High angled L, S of ranks of athletes. C, U of a man in a vest with a large moustache signalling with a flag. In response to his signal, the athletes move into lines and start doing exercises, panning shots over the rows and rows of young women in identical clothes. M, S of rows of women doing synchronised exercises. C, U of the back of a bald headed man with beard and glasses in military uniform watching the performance from an enclosed balcony above the stadium. FILM A VI
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