If watching this when I was eleven didn't turn me into a feminist I don't know what would have.
Title: Beauty Knows No Pain
Running Time: 26 Minutes
Country: USA
Genre: Americana, Feminist Film, Gender Issues
Elliott Erwitt's 25-minute documentary, about the care and training of a group of majorettes, seemed rather sweet and sad. Here the rigors the girls so willingly endure look like the preparations for a national lobotomy.
Beauty Knows No Pain (1971) New York Times
Film Shorts Yield Slice of Americana
By VINCENT CANBY
Published: January 5, 1973
