Pygmalion
- Director: Ludwig Berger
- Year: 1937
- Country: The Netherlands
- Genre: Live action fiction
- Subtitles: English
- Duration: 125 min
The universality of science in film will be revealed in these historic science films from the EYE Film Institute archives.
Pygmalion / Ludwig Berger / Fiction / 93 min / 1937
Dutch film version of G.B. Shaw’s celebrated play about a language professor’s attempts at turning a flowergirl into a lady. Linguist Henry Higgins has bet his friend colonel Pickering that his elocution exercises will eradicate the vulgar Amsterdam accent of flowergirl Elisa Doeluttel and turn her into a lady with impeccable enunciation.
Pygmalion will be screened together with the short film Amour et Science (M. J. Roche, 1912) The romance of film, love and science. A mad inventor creates a video telephone, but his fiancĂ©e teaches him a lesson by appearing on screen with her ‘lover’.