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Topical Budget 502-1: Where A False Step Means Death (1921)
 

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"Where a False Step Means Death Marjorie Hillick, the "Maud Allan of the skies", practising on a girder".

Marjorie Hillick performs a dance on an uncompleted New York skyscraper. View of skeleton of girders of building, slow pan up to reveal Marjorie, barefooted, dressed in a flowing below-the-knee dress and carrying a tambourine, dancing on one o the girders. View looking down on her dancing with the street and other buildings below. LS looking up at her dancing. View on the same level as he clings to an upright girder and arches her back. Another view of her dancing, she stands by an upright girder and the wind catches her dress revealing her underwear.