Girl Photographer Issue Title Pathe Pictorial Looks At The Modern Woman (1947)

No titles. London. General view of Fleet Street with St Paul’s Cathedral in the distance. In an office we see the Art Editor of Reuters talking on the telephone. A young woman, Reuters photographer Pat Holden, walks in and looks over the man’s shoulder. He hands her a brief and she leaves the office. Pat comes out of Reuters Building, chats to a male photographer on the way in, then looks at her watch and hails a taxi. At Great Ormond Street Hospital Pat is taken by a nurse into a ward. Inside, we see several shots of Pat preparing her camera and taking a photograph of a baby in a cot. Men at work in the office picture despatch department. Pat stops to check out a photo from a fashion shoot she worked on. In the dark room Pat and two men choose her best negative for printing. At her desk, Pat sits down with a mug of tea and writes up her dope sheet. Note: Pat was 22 years old at the time of this film. She was the first (professional) woman to take General Eisenhower’s picture. FILM