Signals! Yesterday And Today (1929)

Introductory intertitle reads: “Over thirty years ago they made a film on the Continent of their idea of a lady in love sort of hinting it to her partner.“ M/S of a man and a woman in front of a painted backdrop. The woman dances around - spinning as if possessed. She then falls down in a chair as if in a faint and fans herself. There is much flirtatious behaviour between the couple, “come hither eyes“, beckoning gestures etc. The man fans the woman with the tail of his jacket. The woman poses, she eventually sits down on the chair and her beau sits on the arm of the chair with his arm around her. He strokes her hair and arm then kisses her hand. He is rapturous. Their flirtation ends in an embrace. The man is possibly a woman in man’s clothes. This is presumably film from the late 1800s. “Funny, wasn’t it? Today, Eve has another way of remembering the kind of fellow she has a date with...“ reads an intertitle. C/U of woman stretching out her arms. She is standing in front of the backdrop u