Josephine reads from the Book of the Dead – a rather hamfisted way of tossing in some foreshadowing along with sisterly bonding. She is a productive brush licker and soon to be recognized for having the highest output for the month.Ī dreamy photographer there to shoot the award presentation draws the attention of Bessie. Bespectacled and freckled Josephine, Bessie’s older sister, has worked at AR a few years longer. She advises against licking the brush, as the the aftertaste can be avoided with the slower method of fingertip brush. Younger Bessie, 17, has worked there for two years. This new girl, the first named character, seems to be a one and done, never appearing again. The film shows plenty of brush-licking, but never the moment when management gives them explicit instructions to put tongue to radium. New girl Agnes arrives to learn the company pays a penny a dial top girls paint 200 dials per day, raking-in two dollars (equivalent to $29.75 in 2020 money).
#RADIUM GIRLS MOVIE MOVIE#
Those are the only watches in this movie – vintage watch porn hardly being appropriate, considering the denouement. Presumably other things happened there, but all we ever see is one room of about two dozen girls painting watch and clock dials, and a quick shot of a smaller room for drying and inspecting timepieces. Courtesy Juno FilmsĪfter the credits, we’re introduced to the Orange, NJ factory of American Radium (AR) circa 1925. It reminded me of a Powerpoint presenter who really loves extended wipes. The filmmakers deployed this “technique” throughout the movie, when Radium Girls had no better way to connect scenes. In the opening scene, a carnival barker shills the miracles of radium as a cure-all, using the lovely appellation of “liquid sunshine.” Then it’s time for some stock footage: black and white B-roll of flappers. Thus I saw the film at an outdoor screening in late October. I’m not sure what happened to 2019, but I know what happened in 2020. The movie premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018, scheduled for cinematic release in April, 2020.
In my last article, I promised to review the recently released 2018 docudrama Radium Girls.
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