“Just A Line!“ (1938)

Titles read: “Just a line!“ Location of events probably London. M/S of a woman sitting at a desk, writing a letter. M/Ss of a monk (?) in the dark ages (?) writing a letter by candlelight. M/Ss of ornately written and decorated letters from the church of this period. We then see an actress dressed as Anne Boleyn, writing at a table by candlelight. Various shots of a letter in the British Museum actually written by Boleyn. An actress dressed as Elizabeth I writes on a block held by a servant in a hood. M/S of a letter written by Queen Elizabeth I; C/U of her signature. An actress dressed as Marie Antoinette writes a letter at an ornate table; M/S of an actual letter written by Antoinette. C/U of an extract that is seen translated as “and I do not know how my rouge or my silk stockings are made.“ Various shots of a letter that sent Captain Alfred Dreyfus to Devil’s Island in 1894. The evidence was later found to be forged. C/Us of the first woman we saw putting her letter in an envelo