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Screened on 29 February 1928, when it is safe to assume that the weather in Britain was less than clement, this lively Topical Budget item shows assorted people frolicking on the Riviera. The precise location isn't given, and it hardly matters. The film is essentially the equivalent of a moving holiday album, with eight snapshots, all taken on the beach. There is no narrative content, but individual shots often seem composed as though to accentuate a sense of movement. The first, for instance, combines a see-saw, keep-fit exercises and a volleyball tournament, thus creating back-and-forth movements on three different planes. The film concludes with three shots of children enjoying themselves: on a slide, with an oversized beachball, or just waving at the camera as if to tell their poor bedraggled British cousins about what they're missing. Michael Brooke
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