Not long after the 20th century arrived, camera-frenzy was rife,
and `models' for amateur photographers could make a living. Among
them, in Brooklyn, is young, beautiful, Melia Nord. Answering an
advertisement for people to appear before a movie camera she is
asked to dance briefly as if a girl in a Wild West bar. Melia takes
off - a high-kicker with no inhibitions. The novice film crew are
mesmerised: `Keep the camera rolling' the director commands. A star
of the silver screen is born. So begins another movie career, like
all the others - untrained, untried people are initially gathered
into innocent scenes - producer, director, script writer, costume
maker, set designer, and so on, are all characters worth watching
as they learn their tricks and trade, in this entrancing and
frequently humorous depiction of what was to become one of the
world's biggest industries. Steeped in well-researched and vivid
early 20th century details, peppered with Pearson's crackling
dialogue and non-stop action, Celluloid Peach becomes compulsive
reading. The `ideas' discussions about a villain chasing a girl
over plane wings is as hilarious as a debate about rescuing an
actress swallowed by a whale - a plank wedged in the mouth would
prevent her from drowning - yes? Melia's ascent is to be as swift
as her fall. The narrator, stuntman-turned-director, Lance Murdoch
was also Melia's first cameraman. His attentiveness leads her to
trust him. Their marriage is fun-packed until an idiotic on-set
prank, by an unknown crew member, turns Melia towards
self-destruction and a dreadful fate.
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