Elsa Stenning (1937)

Full title reads: “Pathetone now has pleasure in presenting - Elsa Stenning. The popular Australian Soprano (of Variety, Cabaret and Covent Garden fame).“ Pathe Studios, London. Various shots of opera singer, Elsa Stenning, singing song about Vienna in German and English (exact title unknown). Stenning is dressed in Victorian style costume with ringlet wig. Various shots representing Austrian life are interspersed with singing; roof tops of Vienna, people dancing in ballroom, a blonde couple in traditional dress - they cross arms to drink from each others’ beer glasses and then kiss passionately. Note: sound track missing from 01:02:59, item mute from then till end. AH 2001. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection,