1920s flappers driving racing cars and gambling

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10:18:04:18 VO ‘flapper’, Woman sat in motorcar, fashionably dressed, gets out of car, clearing in wooded area, walks along street. INT domestic, Art-Deco wallpaper, women smoking, playing cards, a man enters and gestures disapprovingly.
10:18:26:22 CU two separate women drivers, looks to camera, points, driving goggles/glasses.
10:18:32:20 Group of men gather circular hot air balloon basket as it sways before take-off. CU woman, elegantly dressed in car with two small terrier dogs. Hot air balloon takes off. Crowds below let go of small toy balloons which float up. VO ‘to wing in the face in the face of nature’ gender stereotypes, women’s liberation.
10:18:45:11 Woman drives towards a barrier on a track with a line of men on one side, woman parks, gets out of the car, removes the barriers dramatically and speeds through. Man shakes hands with a woman at the hot air basket.
10:18:56:16 EXT park bench, CU woman’s legs in sheer tights, small skirt, sitting on bench, crosses legs. VO ‘there was nothing that a man could do that a flapper couldn’t do better’.