A 9-minute time capsule where ice skaters had better edges than your situationships.
Ice skating is becoming a more and more popular activity, especially with ice arenas making it possible to skate in warmer climes and ice shows bringing the beauty of figure skating to the masses. For the novice skater just learning, there will be the inevitable bumps and falls. New skaters learn that their skate blades have an inside and outside edge. Basics they learn are how to glide properly and how to stop. Most maneuvers conducted by figure skaters are based on figure eights, figure threes and loops. Other areas of the arts and entertainment mesh with figure skating, such as music, fashion and dance. The most famous professional revue, the Ice Follies, incorporates many other aspects of entertainment into their show beyond the basic ice skating.
Practical Effects
Actual ice, actual falls, zero CGI—just pure 1930s elbow pads.
Costume
Sequins so aggressive they probably registered as aircraft.
Director
David Miller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This short captures the moment ice skating shifted from elite pastime to mass entertainment via refrigerated rinks.
Director David Miller would later helm 'Lonely Are the Brave' with Kirk Douglas—quite the pivot from sequins to existential Westerns.
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