Children's Feet in Cinema, 1898 - Present -- May 24, 2011 Edition (PART TWO)
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5. GIRLFEET/BOYFEET
* "Santa Claus" 1898. Dorothy Smith, about 6 years old, and Harold
Smith, about 7 years old, walk about barefoot in their bedroom as they
wait for the arrival of Santa. They show their feet from all angles
as they climb in and out of bed, including their soles, from medium
distance, requiring use of the "zoom" function of the remote control
for better viewing.
* "Anthony Adverse" 1936. Billy Mauch, 11 years old, is barefoot in
all his scenes. He is seated at a well ledge and showing the bottoms
of his feet in medium close-up when he first appears. As he walks
about he also shows his soles in various distances, and when he sits
at a couch in his bedroom the tops of his feet are shown in medium
close-up. He also displays his soles in medium distance when he
climbs a tree and when walking up stairs after meeting Anne Howard, 10
years old. Anne is also barefoot in her brief scenes, and the tops of
her feet show in medium close-up. When Billy walks escorted by a
priest into the town square, numerous boys in bare feet follow him
about and pester him, with their feet displayed in medium to medium-
long distances.
* "The Blue Bird" 1940. Shirley Temple, 11 years old, does not
appear barefoot at any time in this film; however, when she and her
brother visit a heavenly place where children wait to be born on
Earth, they encounter dozens of boys and girls ranging in age from
about 4 to 10 years old, all of whom are barefoot.
* "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes" 1945. Margaret O'Brien, 8 years
old, and Jackie "Butch" Jenkins, 8 years old, walk barefoot down a
dirt road at the beginning of the film in a scene that moves from
medium-long to medium close-up views. Both children have many other
barefoot scenes as they return to the farm where Margaret lives,
including when they are ringing the dinner bell outside and when they
lift their legs as they climb over a corral fence to see livestock.
Margaret shows one of her soles when she does the latter, and both
children display their soles as they walk and run from the camera in
medium to long distances. Margaret is also barefoot in medium close-
up when she sits one night with her mother on the porch steps, and
"Butch" is barefoot in a medium-distance scene as Margaret skates
around the silo.
* "So Dear to my Heart" 1949. Luana Patten, 10 years old, and Bobby
Driscoll, 11 years old, walk about barefoot numerous times in this
film set in a rural area. The views of their feet range from medium
to medium close-up, with their soles showing when they walk.
* "Houseboat" 1958. Paul Petersen, 12 years old, Charles Herbert, 9
years old, and Mimi Gibson, 9 years old, live aboard a houseboat with
their widowed father and walk about barefoot on deck in numerous
scenes, sometimes dangling their feet in the water, in medium to
medium close-up distances.
* "A High Wind in Jamaica" 1965. Deborah Baxter, 11 years old,
climbs a rope ladder aboard the pirate ship where she and her siblings
have accidentally stowed away and shows the bottoms of her feet in
medium distance as she ascends. She also slides about barefoot on the
wet ship deck, along with her on-screen siblings Roberta Tovey, 11
years old, Jeffrey Chandler, about 10 years old, and Karen Flack,
about 6 years old, as well as her on-screen friend Henry Beltran,
about 12 years old, with their feet out in front of them as they slide
on their backsides, with all views in medium to medium close-up.
Roberta's soles can be seen in medium distance as she is sliding, if
freeze-frame is used. Both Jeffrey and Henry show the bottoms of
their feet in medium close-up as they lounge on the ships' ropes and
netting. Martin Amis, 15 years old, who also appears barefoot, may
not be considered by some filmgoers as a "child" for purposes of this
list.
(Note: Deborah's age was originally listed as "about 12 years old"
but she confirmed in an interview that she was in fact 11 when she
appeared in the film.)
* "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" 1968. Heather Ripley, 7 years old, and
Adrian Hall, 7 years old, both show their bare feet while playing on
the beach. In a medium close-up shot, Adrian displays the soles of
his feet as they stick out of the sand in which he's been buried.
Heather's feet are shown in medium close-up from the tops and sides as
she walks about in the tide, and her soles are slightly visible in
long shots as she runs. (Although the film was released in 1968 when
both Heather and Adrian were 9 years old, they were 7 when the film
was actually shot.)
* "The Blue Lagoon" 1980. Elva Josephson, 10 years old, sits on the
beach with her feet out in front of her in a medium close-up view and
later swims in the ocean with Glenn Kohan, 10 years old, who both show
their feet in medium close-up as they swim.
* "Witness" 1985. Lukas Haas, 8 years old, gives a brief partial
glimpse of his bare feet in medium close-up when he sits beside his
mother to observe the barn raising activity in this film of Amish
life. Other boys and girls also appear barefoot during the event in
varying distances.
* "Summer Rental" 1985. Aubrey Jene, about 6 years old, and Joey
Lawrence, 9 years old, appear barefoot in numerous scenes in this
comedy set at a beach house. The barefoot views are medium distance.
* "She's Out of Control" 1989. Laura Mooney, 11 years old, shows the
upper half of her left sole in medium distance for a few seconds as
she sits cross-legged on the beach. In separate scenes, Michael
Bower, 13 years old, and Dustin Diamond, 11 years old, show various
views of their feet, particularly medium close-up views of their soles
as they run from Laura's on-screen father on the beach. Other boys,
uncredited, also appear. As in "Heidi," noted above, admirers of
girlfeet may find only the half-view of Laura's left sole to be
unsatisfying, but others may find even that to be worthwhile.
* "Sidekicks" 1992. Jonathan Brandis, 16 years old, who stars in
this film is unlikely to be considered a "child" for this list in this
karate film in which he appears barefoot. However, many unidentified
boys and girls 12 and under who compete in the karate tournament
toward the end of the film show their feet in medium to medium close-
up distance, and often their soles.
* "The Secret Garden" 1993. Kate Maberly, 10 years old, wears her
nightgown and shows the bottoms of her feet in medium close-up as she
rests on her knees and looks out a window with the camera behind her.
She also shows her soles in muted light in medium close-up when she
crawls from underneath a bed in her nightgown. In another scene, her
on-screen cousin, Heydon Prowse, 10 years old, lies on his back on a
gurney in his nightshirt as he is being given physical therapy, and
the bottoms of his feet show to the camera in medium close-up. In
still another scene, both Kate and Heydon are asleep together on top
of the bed, each in their nightclothes, and the camera pans slowly
from the end of the bed to the head of it and shows the bare feet of
both children, their soles at angle to the camera, in medium close-
up. This latter scene is best viewed in letterbox edition.
Throughout the film both Kate and Heydon appear barefoot in many
scenes,
although some views are relatively distant.
* "Addams Family Values" 1993. Christina Ricci, 13 years old, is
sent to a summer camp where she participates in a skit as a barefoot
American Indian princess. Her feet are shown in medium distance.
Other children, boys and girls both, are shown barefoot in these
scenes as well.
* "Four Rooms" 1995. Lana McKissack, 10 years old, and Danny
Verduzco, 7 years old, remove their shoes and socks in a hotel room,
and their feet are shown in medium distance in most of the scene.
However, at one point Lana lies on a hotel bed and extends the bottom
of her foot toward her on-screen younger brother, where her sole
appears in close-up. Danny also shows the bottoms of his feet in
medium close-up when he climbs up on a bed, then when he crosses his
legs to suck his toe. (Note: filming wrapped the day Danny turned
8.)
* "Harriet the Spy" 1996. Michelle Trachtenberg, 10 years old, and
her friends, Gregory Smith, 12 years old, and Vanessa Lee Chester, 11
years old, draw a design on their soles as an indication of their
solidarity. In this scene, the feet of all three children are
generally in medium close-up but have an extreme close-up view also,
particularly of Gregory's foot as it is drawn upon. Michelle also has
a scene in the bathtub where she brings her foot out of the tub, her
sole in full view of the camera in medium close-up. Additionally, she
has a scene in a girls' restroom where she removes one shoe and sock,
and places her foot in medium close-up in a wash fountain.
* "Leave It to Beaver" 1997. Cameron Finley, 9 years old, lies
barefoot on his bed, then stands up on it, in a medium close-up shot.
Later in the film, Erik von Detten, 14 years old, and Erika
Christensen, 14 years old, sit barefoot on the edge of pier and dangle
their feet in the water in medium-long distance.
* "The Education of Little Tree" 1997. Joseph Ashton, 10 years old,
stars in this film about Native American prejudice in the early 20th
century and appears barefoot briefly in medium distance when he
removes his shoes while climbing a trail with his grandfather. Mika
Boorem, 9 years old, also appears in the film as his friend and is
barefoot in at least medium distance in all of her scenes, and when
she puts on a moccasin the camera shows her right foot in close-up.
* "Jungle 2 Jungle" 1997. Sam Huntington, 14 years old, appears
barefoot in nearly all of his scenes in this tale of a rainforest
child transplanted to New York City. From the opening shot of his
climbing a mountain and standing on its peak, to walking about on the
beach and sleeping in his hammock, the tops of his feet show
throughout. In brief moments his soles can be seen when he walks away
from the camera and, in one medium close-up scene, when he is sitting
with his mother at the end of the film as she reads a story to him;
however, his soles are obscured in normal full-screen format and can
best be seen in widescreen ("letterbox") format. During scenes in the
rainforest village, numerous unidentified boys and girls walk and run
about in bare feet. Other barefoot scenes of Sam, too many to list,
include when he is walking through a New York fountain and climbing
the crown of the Statue of Liberty. His on-screen girlfriend, Leelee
Sobieski, 14 years old, appears barefoot when she sleeps in a hammock
with Sam and when she defends having done so while in the kitchen with
her parents. Leelee's on-screen little brother, Frankie J. Galasso,
11 years old, shows his bare feet in a long shot as he descends the
stairs and briefly in a medium shot when he walks into the kitchen
during the family argument about the hammock-sleeping. (Note: All
three children look younger than their years as calculated here,
perhaps because this film may have been in production when they were
13, 13 and 10, respectively, but this has not been confirmed. The
Internet Movie Database has a submitted note that Sam was screen-
tested at 13 for the film but does not state the dates of production.)
* "My Dog Skip" 2000. Caitlin Wachs, 9 years old, and Frankie Muniz,
12 years old, walk barefoot through the woods in a brief scene near
the end of the film. Their feet are shown in medium distance.
Although the film was released in 2000, it was shot in the spring of
1998 when Caitlin and Frankie were the ages noted.
* "Peter Pan" 2003. Rachel Hurd-Wood, 12 years old, who plays Wendy
in this classic children's tale, is barefoot throughout the entire
film, with the exception of one very brief scene near the beginning in
which she wears slippers. Entirely barefoot from beginning to end are
Jeremy Sumpter, 13 years old, as Peter Pan, and Wendy's brothers
played by Harry Newell, 12 years old, and Freddie Popplewell, 7 years
old. (But they turned 14, 13 and 8, respectively, as filming
progressed.) As they fly about, all four main characters frequently
show their bare soles and well as all angles of their entire feet,
mostly in medium to close-up distances. The Lost Boys also have many
barefoot scenes. The hugely numerous shots of all viewing ranges --
close-up, medium close-up, medium and long -- are too numerous to list
here, but of note is a close-up of Rachel's feet as she stands on her
window sill and later when she "walks the plank" on Captain Hook's
ship. Also of note is an extreme close-up of Jeremy's sole at the
beginning of the children's flight from the Darling's home, when
Jeremy, as Peter Pan, advises Harry to grab his ankle and "hang on and
don't let go." This film shows more children's feet scenes with more
screen time than any other on this list in terms of numbers of
children shown to be barefoot, while "Whale Rider" and "Nim's Island"
show the most foot scenes of a single actress. (This film was shot
from September 2002 to May 2003 and released in December 2003, and
therefore the actors' varying ages at time of filming are as shown in
this paragraph.)
* "Nobody Knows" 2004. Yuya Yagira, 12 years old, Ayu Kitaura, 10
years old, Hiei Kimura, 7 years old, and Momoko Shimizu, 5 years old,
all show their bare feet at various times in this film about four
children abandoned by their mother. As the film begins, the children
are all wearing socks as they play about their apartment, but as the
movie progresses they remove their socks to go barefoot, probably
because of the heat. (Abandoned with little money to pay bills, the
children experience their electrical power eventually being cut off.)
In one scene Yuya's soles are in extreme close-up as he prepares to
shower. In other scenes the bottoms of the feet of Yuya, Ayu, and
Hiei appear in medium close-up as they sleep or walk about. A close-
up of Ayu's feet is shown when she stands on tip-toe to look out onto
the street from their apartment. Momoko's feet are also shown
occasionally, once in extreme close-up, but only the top of her foot,
not
her sole. (Note: The ages of the children are shown as of the
beginning of filming in late 2002, which continued for 18 months
before release. The audience will therefore see the young actors
growing somewhat, and hear Yuya's voice beginning to break.)
* "Little Manhattan" 2005. Josh Hutcherson, 11 years old, and
Charlie Ray, 12 years old, frequently show their feet throughout this
film. Near the beginning of the story Josh displays his soles in his
bedroom in medium close-up, while Charlie shows her soles in close-up
and sometimes almost extreme close-up during her karate sessions with
Josh. Various other boys in the karate scenes are barefoot as well.
* "Let Me In" 2010. Chloe Moretz, 12 years old, walks barefoot
throughout the film as a child vampire in this remake of the Swedish
thriller, and her co-star Kodi Smit-McPhee, 13 years old, reveals his
feet briefly near the end of the film. The multiple scenes show
Chloe's feet from medium and medium close-up to extreme close-up.
When she climbs off an outdoor table, for example, the tops and sides
of her feet are seen in medium close-up. In a later shower scene,
they are shown in close-up; and in the final poolside scene, her feet
are shown in extreme close-up. The only views of her soles are when
she is running from the point of view of the camera, but the views are
dark and very quick, and freeze-frame and "zoom" barely improve the
picture. In the poolside scene, Kodi is attacked by bullies in the
locker room, who pick him up and drag him to the pool. During this
tussle the soles of his bare feet show in medium close-up to close-up
to
the camera, but the movements are so rapid a sharp view is
difficult. (Special note: The marketing poster showing Chloe in an
upside-down fetal position with bare feet is not duplicated exactly in
the film; her feet show as covers are removed, but not her entire
body.)
6. BOYFEET
* "The Champ" 1931. Jackie Cooper, 8 years old, lies on his back on
his bed with his feet out in front of him as he gets undressed to go
to sleep. The views are medium close-up.
* "How Green Was My Valley" 1941. Roddy McDowall, 12 years old, lies
on his stomach on a table in his house with his feet in the air and
shows his soles. The views are medium close-up.
* "The Yearling" 1946. Claude Jarman, Jr., 11 years old, shows his
bare feet from all angles, including his soles, throughout the film
set in rural Florida, USA, of the late 19th century. Views of his
feet range from medium to medium close-up.
* "Oliver Twist" 1948. John Howard Davies, 9 years old, scrubs
floors on his hands and knees barefoot with the camera behind him, the
bottoms of his feet to the camera in medium close-up.
* "The Clown" 1953. Tim Considine, 11 years old, shows his bare feet
as he lies on his bed while talking with his father. His soles are
visible in medium close-up.
* "It Started in Naples" 1960. Marietto Angeletti, 9 years old,
walks around the streets and his apartment barefoot in many scenes,
and shows his soles in medium close-up when lying about on his bed.
* "Pete's Dragon" 1977. Sean Marshall, 11 years old, rides barefoot
atop an animated dragon in this live-action feature and is picked up
by the friendly dragon and swung back and forth. Sean's bare feet
show in medium to medium close-up views at times, and his soles show
quickly in a partial view when he lands in a haystack.
* "The Black Stallion" 1979. Kelly Reno, 12 years old, displays his
bare feet from all angles, including his soles, when he is cast ashore
on an island after a shipwreck and befriends a wild horse. In
addition to showing his feet as he walks about the island, Kelly
displays them when he leaps to the back of the stallion and rides him
along the beaches. The best views of the bottoms of his feet,
however, occur in separate scenes
in medium close-up to close-up when he swims underwater away from the
camera.
* "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" 1982. Henry Thomas, 10 years old,
lies on a gurney barefoot as doctors examine him and his friend E.T.
in a special lab. The bottoms of Henry's feet are shown in medium
close-up.
* "Oliver Twist" 1982. Richard Charles, 10 years old, appears
barefoot in numerous scenes in this made-for-TV movie in which he
appears as the title character. The views are medium to medium close-
up.
* "The Buddy System" 1984. Wil Wheaton, 11 years old, shows the
bottoms of his feet in medium distance as he plays frisbee on the
beach.
* "Misunderstood" 1984. Henry Thomas, 10 years old, and Huckleberry
Fox, 7 years old, show their feet in medium to medium close-up range
as they play about in their pajamas on their bunk beds. Filmed in
1982, this movie was not released until March 1984.
* "D.A.R.Y.L." 1985. Barret Oliver, 11 years old, is barefoot on a
gurney as he is rolled into an examination machine. The camera is
overhead and in a comparatively long distance from Barret, but the
tops of his bare feet are clearly evident.
* "Stand by Me" 1986. Wil Wheaton, 13 years old, walks barefoot from
a campfire to see his friend River Phoenix and shows the bottoms of
his feet in medium close-up as he walks.
* "Where the River Runs Black" 1986. Alessandro Rabelo, about 10
years old, is a long-haired "wild child" in the Amazonian jungle who
shows his feet constantly during the first two-thirds of the film, and
frequently displays his soles in medium to medium close-up as he dives
in the river.
* "Vice Versa" 1988. Fred Savage, 11 years old, displays a bare foot
in close-up while recovering from a sprain. The foot is in the
foreground of the shot and shows his sole in slightly soft focus.
* "Cinema Paradiso" 1989. Salvatore Cascio, 9 years old, apprentices
to an elderly movie projectionist and in one scene is placed upon a
stool so he can be better positioned to the projector. Salvatore is
barefoot in this scene, and his feet are shown close-up as he stands
on the stool. This is an Italian-language film available with
subtitles.
* "Dutch" 1991. Ethan Randall (later known as Ethan Embry), 12 years
old, shows his soles in medium distance, including the bottoms of his
feet, as he practices karate on a pad in the gymnasium of his boarding
school.
* "What About Bob?" 1991. Charlie Korsmo, 12 years old, walks
barefoot in his swimming trunks out to the end of a pier where his
father tries to teach him to dive into a lake. Charlie does this in
two separate scenes, once with his father and once with an adult
friend. In the first scene, the camera shows Charlie from the waist
down in medium close-up as he turns to position his toes at the edge
of the pier, and he further shows his feet in medium distance as he
walks away in refusal. In the second scene in medium close-up, he is
sitting on an upside-down bucket on the pier while barefoot, then
walks to demonstrate how to dive to the adult friend and shows his
soles at an angle in medium distance as he walks. He then shows his
feet and partially his soles when he dives into the lake. Moments
later, when the adult friend is accidentally knocked into the water by
Charlie's dad, Charlie shows his soles directly to the camera in
medium-long
distance as he lies down on the pier to help retrieve his friend.
Later in a bedroom scene, Charlie jumps on his bed and shows his soles
at an angle in medium close-up.
* "The Power of One" 1992. Guy Witcher, 7 years old, gets picked up
in the boarding school bathroom and shows the bottoms of his feet in
medium close-up as he is carried off by other boys.
* "Free Willy" 1993. Jason James Richter, 12 years old, shows his
bare feet many times, including his soles when he walks poolside, in
medium close-up to close-up shots when he is poolside with Willy the
killer whale (portrayed by Keiko the orca) and when he is swimming
with Willy in the water.
* "Dennis the Menace" 1993. Mason Gamble, 7 years old, kneels on a
short stepladder in the bathroom and shows his bare feet in medium
close-up from the side. Later he shows the bottoms of his feet in
medium distance when he jumps into bed quickly, requiring freeze-frame
to view well.
* "The Force" 1994. Jarrett Lennon, 12 years old, wears a karate
uniform in one scene and performs martial arts moves while barefoot in
this direct-to-video film. The bottoms of his feet show in medium
close-up when he raises his legs to perform the moves, although they
are quick and require freeze-frame to observe his soles more closely.
* "Stepmom" 1998. Liam Aiken, 8 years old, is in his pajamas and
barefoot as he stands on his bed and lip-syncs "Ain't No Mountain High
Enough" with his family. He is also picked up and held for further
barefoot scenes. The barefoot views range from medium to medium close-
up.
* "Big Daddy" 1999. Cole and Dylan Sprouse, 6 years old, who as
twins alternate in the role of Julian, show bare feet in a bedroom
scene where Julian is wearing pajamas. In a medium distance shot,
Julian's soles clearly show as he tosses and turns on the bed.
* "The Sixth Sense" 1999. Haley Joel Osment, 10 years old, kneels in
two separate scenes to reveal the bottoms of his feet in medium close-
up while he is wearing pajamas, although both scenes are in low
light. He also shows his feet in medium and medium close-up shots
when he gets out of bed and walks about the house.
* "Pay It Forward" 2000. Haley Joel Osment, 11 years old, comes out
of the bedroom in his pajamas and shows the tops and sides of his feet
in medium distance. He also shows his soles in shadow when he turns
and walks down the hallway but it is too dark to see them. (Note:
Haley turned 12 on last day of filming.)
* "The Little Vampire" 2000. Jonathan Lipnicki, 9 years old, shows
his soles in medium close-up as he climbs in and out of bed in several
scenes. In one scene, there is a lingering medium close-up shot of
several seconds of the tops of his feet as they stick out from under
the covers.
* "The Miracle of the Cards" 2001. Thomas Sangster, 11 years old,
who portrays a child with a life-threatening illness, is rolled on a
gurney into a hospital MRI machine. The bottoms of his bare feet are
in medium close-up as he is moved.
* "Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles" 2001. Serge Cockburn, 10 years
old, shows his feet in soft focus in medium distance as he appears in
a background shot while wearing his pajamas.
* "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" 2001. Daniel Radcliffe, 11
years old, climbs in his pajamas atop a window seat ledge to gaze out
the window, and he displays his bare feet as he does so, but only the
tops and sides. Rupert Grint, 12 years old, also has a barefoot scene
in medium close-up when he and Daniel gather around a Christmas tree.
* "AI: Artificial Intelligence" 2002. Haley Joel Osment, 12 years
old, is barefoot in a swimming pool scene and shows the bottoms of his
feet in medium close-up as he walks about.
* "Love Actually" 2003. Thomas Sangster, 12 years old, is pulled
playfully back on a couch and shows the bottoms of his feet in motion
as he falls in a medium close-up shot. A scene later, he is resting
on the couch with his feet on the coffee table, and his soles are
shown in an even closer shot than the previous one, while not
precisely close-up. Also, his feet as they rest on the table remain
perfectly still for clearer viewing, although his feet are clipped
slightly at the bottom of the screen even in wide-screen format.
* "Finding Neverland" 2004. Luke Spill, about 6 years old, is being
carried to his bed sideways by his mother. Luke's body fills the
center of the frame and displays both his bare soles in medium close-
up. In the scene that follows, Freddie Highmore, 11 years old (but
looking much younger), along with his on-screen brothers Joe Prospero,
15 years old, and Nick Roud, 14 years old (both also looking younger),
are imagined by an onlooking J.M. Barie, author of "Peter Pan," to be
flying out the bedroom window in their nightshirts. All the boys are
barefoot and show the bottoms of their feet in medium distance as they
exit the window.
* "Les Choristes" 2004. Maxence Perrin, 5 years old, shows his feet
in medium close-up when the covers are pulled back from his bed by
other schoolmates in his dormitory.
* "Dear Frankie" 2004. Jack McElhone, 10 years old, climbs into bed
and shows the bottoms of his feet in medium close-up as he does so.
Later in the film he appears barefoot as he lies upside-down on his
back on a couch with his feet up against a wall, and later still when
he is sitting up in his bed, both in medium distance shots. In
another scene, the tops of his feet are shown in close-up as his
mother touches a couple of his toes.
* "Ring 2" 2005. David Dorfman, 11 years old, gets out of bed
barefoot when hearing mysterious noises from the living room. When he
enters the room he pauses, then proceeds to the television displaying
a static screen and kneels in front of it. His soles are shown in
medium distance. In a separate scene, David is shown getting into a
bathtub and displays his feet in medium close-up.
* "Following Sean" 2005. Sean Farrell, 4 years old, sits barefoot on
a couch and plays in the streets barefoot in this full-length
documentary sequel based on the 1969 documentary short "Sean", about a
child growing up in the Haight-Ashbury hippie neighborhood of San
Francisco. The views of his feet range from medium distance to close-
up, including his soles.
* "Duma" 2005. Alex Michaeletos, about 12 years old, shows his soles
in medium close-up as he lies in bed with his feet sticking out of the
covers. The shot lingers for many seconds. His feet also appear
during a swim session in a pool in medium distance. In an early scene
in the film he runs barefoot to the toilet with his pet cheetah in his
arms, but the scene is brief and his feet not easy to see. [Special
note: A publicity poster for the film depicted an artist's near-
photographic rendering of an African savanna with a large tree limb in
the foreground. Hanging from the limb was a cheetah's curled tail and
a boy's bare feet, showing the soles at an angle mostly toward the
viewer. The scene was not in the film.]
* "A Good Year" 2006. Freddie Highmore, 13 years old, stands
barefoot on a diving board at a swimming pool and jumps into the
water. An initial shot shows his feet close-up on the board, then his
feet can be seen in medium distance as he jumps and dives.
* "Vitus" 2006. Fabrizio Borsani, about 6 years old, twice displays
the soles of his feet in two different scenes in medium close-up when
the camera pans slowly along the edge of his bed.
* "Martian Child" 2007. Bobby Coleman, 8 years old, shows the tops
and sides of his feet in medium distance when he sits poolside at the
end of the film. (Note: Bobby turned 8 just three days after filming
started in 2005, but the film was not released until 2007 when he was
10.)
* "Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out" 2008. Sterling Beaumon,
12 years old, walks barefoot into his bathroom and jumps with surprise
at the appearance of a ghost. When he does so, he shows the tops and
sides of his feet for several seconds, plus a view of his soles at a
very shallow angle requiring freeze-frame and "zoom" to be seen
adequately.
* "The Road" 2009. Kodi Smit-McPhee, 11 years old, shows the tops of
his feet in medium close-up in a bathroom scene in very slightly soft
focus. He also shows them in bed in a shelter and in a later scene
when his father is massaging Kodi's foot, but the scenes are dark and
Kodi's feet are indistinct. (In "The Making Of 'The Road'" as part of
the DVD supplementary selections, a long distance shot captures Kodi
running and dancing barefoot on the beach. Although a beach scene is
included in the principal film, no barefoot viewings remain in the
final editing.)
7. ANIMATED GIRLFEET AND BOYFEET
* "The Jungle Book" 1967. Bruce Reitherman, 11 years old, voices the
character Mowgli, about 10 years old, in this jungle tale of a wild
child who is barefoot throughout the movie. In many scenes Mowgli's
soles are shown, some in medium close-up. At the end of the film, the
character Shanti, about 10 years old and voiced by Darleen Carr, 16
years old, is introduced as she gathers water into her jug from a
stream. Shanti is barefoot in the scene in medium distance.
* "The Rescuers" 1977. Michelle Stacy, about 7 years old, voices the
character Penny, about 6 years old, in this film of mice rescuing a
kidnapped little girl. Penny appears barefoot with her soles briefly
showing as she climbs about her bed, gets dressed, and later does an
impression in her nightgown of her kidnapper, all in medium close-up.
She displays the bottoms of her feet in close-up as she kneels at an
upstairs railing to look at activity beneath her.
* "The Snowman" 1982. A cartoon boy, about 6 years old, shows the
bottoms of his feet in two separate scenes in this British short film,
based on the wordless picture book for children. No actors provided
voices for the boy or any other characters. In both scenes the boy is
wearing pajamas and leaves his bed to reveal his feet in medium close-
up.
* "Inspector Gadget" 1985. Holly Berger, 12 years old, voices the
character Penny, about 10 years old, in this time-travel story in
which Inspector Gadget and his niece return to prehistoric days.
Penny discovers her ancestor from the past, an exact look-alike named
Cave Penny, also voiced by Holly, who walks about barefoot throughout
her scenes showing her feet in medium views, with one close-up toward
the end of the story. This episode, entitled "Tyrannosaurus Gadget,"
was first broadcast December 28, 1985.
* "The B.F.G." 1989. Amanda Root, an adult, voices the character
Sophie, about 10 years old, in a film about a Big Friendly Giant (the
acronym of the title). In one scene, Sophie splashes about in an
indoor swimming pool and shows her feet often, once raising her foot
out of the water to reveal her sole in medium close-up.
* "All Dogs Go to Heaven" 1989. Judith Barsi, 9 years old, voices
the character Anne-Marie, about 6 years old, a little girl who runs
away and befriends a pack of talking dogs. In one scene she climbs
into the back seat of a car to go to sleep, and her soles are shown in
medium close-up to the camera as she lies down.
* "The Little Mermaid" 1989. Jodi Benson, an adult, voices the
character Ariel, 15 years old, in this film about a mermaid who wishes
to have legs and explore humankind on dry land. In the original story
by Hans Christian Andersen, upon reaching age 15 a mermaid is allowed
to go to the surface and observe the land world. Although the
character has barely "aged out" of this list, which normally includes
children only to age 14, some moviegoers may nonetheless appreciate
the scene in which she shows and wiggles a foot, revealing her sole in
close-up, when she is first transformed on the beach into a human.
She then appears barefoot in following scenes as she adapts to land.
* "Aladdin" 1994. J.D. Daniels, 14 years old, voices the character
Rajib, about 12 years old, who runs about causing mischief, all the
while completely barefoot, in this half-hour cartoon series based upon
the 1992 film. Among many scenes, Rajib falls back on his backside
and climbs over a barrel, showing the bottoms of his feet every time
in medium close-up views. He also hijacks a huge robot and works the
foot pedals inside to make the machine move, showing his feet again
from different angles in close-up. This episode, entitled "A
Clockwork Hero," first aired on November 2, 1994.
* "Pokemon: Hang Ten, Pikachu" 2000. Veronica Taylor, an adult,
voices the character Ash Ketchum, about 12 years old, in this
compilation of three television episodes which aired consecutively in
October 1999. In the middle episode of the three, Ash goes surfing
and has a number of barefoot scenes, including close-ups of his soles
and various other angles of his feet. When he first runs toward the
ocean in his swim trunks and holds his surfboard with his back to the
camera, the bottoms of his feet are clearly seen in freeze-frame. One
scene contains an error in which Ash is grasping his surfboard while
nearly submerged in the ocean, in which Ash has two left feet, a
result of duplicating the drawing and placing them side by side.
Nonetheless, many filmgoers may find the shot satisfactory, and all
other barefoot scenes are correctly drawn. In flashback scenes, the
guest character Victor as a child, about 8 years old (the name of the
actor
voicing the child is uncertain), has close-up scenes of his feet as
he runs and lies on his surfboard. Rachael Lillis, an adult, voices
Misty, about 12 years old, who has one scene in which she is barefoot
in a medium-long shot. This episode, entitled "The Pi-Kahuna," first
aired October 2, 1999.
* "The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea" 2000. Tara Strong,
later known as Tara Charendoff, 17 years old, voices the character
Melody, about 12 years old, daughter of Ariel, in this straight-to-
video movie about a human child with two legs who wishes to explore
the sea as her mother did when Ariel was a mermaid. Melody is
barefoot in many scenes in medium to medium close-up views before she
is transformed into a mermaid herself.
* "Dora the Explorer" 2000. Kathleen Herles, 9 years old, voices the
character Dora, 7 years old, in this popular animated television
series. In one episode, Dora wishes to go to the beach with her
friends on a very hot day, and she proceeds as usual through a maze of
obstacles until she reaches her destination. She wears shoes and
socks until she arrives, and while she is not shown removing her shoes
and socks, she is seen barefoot from a middle distance as she walks
about on the sand. The views are of the tops of her feet rather than
her soles. This episode, entitled "Beaches," was first broadcast in
September 2000. (The exact airdate in September is unknown thus far.)
[Special note unrelated to television: Nickelodeon Jr., which
presents "Dora the Explorer", has released an oversize coloring book
("A Golden Book: Dora the Explorer...Giant Steps", ISBN
978-0-375-84727-1) which features a large drawing of her in her
pajamas on the last
page, with her bare feet facing out toward the reader. Her feet are
about 3 and 1/2 inches long from heel to large toe tip.]
* "Spirited Away" 2001. Daveigh Chase, 11 years old, voices the
character Chihiro/Sen, about 10 years old, in this Japanese film of a
little girl who mistakenly enters an alternative world of witches and
ghosts. She is told by one of its inhabitants, "You will not need
shoes [in this world] or socks," so she removes them to appear
barefoot in nearly every remaining scene of the film. Beginning with
long distant shots of her feet, later scenes show them in a range from
medium to close-up views, as well as several close-ups of her soles,
such as when she walks across a water pipe or falls backward from the
edge of a large bathtub. Close-ups of her feet also appear in
underwater views and in a flashback sequence. Originally voiced by
Rumi Hiiragi, 13 years old, this English-language version was released
in 2002.
* "Lilo and Stitch" 2002. Daveigh Chase, 11 years old, voices the
character Lilo, about 6 years old, in this tale of a little Hawaiian
girl who befriends a dog-like alien. Lilo appears barefoot throughout
the film, with frequent views of the bottoms of her feet in medium to
medium close-up.
* "Dora the Explorer" 2002. Kathleen Herles, 11 years old, voices
the character Dora, 7 years old, in this story about a piece missing
from a jigsaw puzzle featuring a wizard. During the episode Swiper
the fox steals various items from Dora, including her sock. When the
sock is magically returned, she removes her foot from her shoe to
reveal her sole and the sock instantly covers it. She then reinserts
her foot into the shoe. The view of her sole in medium distance is
only for a second and requires freeze-frame and zoom for better
viewing. This episode, entitled "The Missing Piece," was first
broadcast March 19, 2002.
* "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" 2002. Debi
Derryberry, adult actress, voices the character of Jimmy Neutron, 11
years old, in this series about a boy inventor with a genius IQ. In
one episode Jimmy invents a robot little brother who follows him
everywhere. One morning Jimmy awakes to find the small robot
observing him in his bedroom, and Jimmy pushes back the covers and
brings his legs out from under. His feet, shown in medium close-up,
reveal his soles to the camera. This episode, entitled "Brobot," was
first broadcast October 4, 2002.
* "The Jungle Book 2" 2003. Haley Joel Osment, 14 years old, voices
the character Mowgli, about 11 years old, in this sequel. Once again
Mowgli and his young girlfriend Shanti, about 11 years old and voiced
by Mae Whitman, 14 years old, appear barefoot throughout the film and
often show their soles from medium to medium close-up views.
* "The Polar Express" 2004. Josh Hutcherson, 12 years old, and Ashly
Holloway, 12 years old, voice the characters Hero Boy and his sister
Sarah in this Christmas story of a skeptical child who rides a magical
train to the North Pole. Hero Boy shows the tops and sides of his
feet in medium close-up at the beginning of the film when he jumps out
of bed, but the scenes are brief. Toward the end of the film, when
Hero Boy and Sarah are sitting near the Christmas tree to open
presents, the tops of Sarah's feet are shown in medium close-up, and
all angles of Hero Boy's feet, including the sole of one foot, are
shown in medium close-up as the camera pans from above and around him
as he repositions himself. These ending scenes are more lingering and
give the filmgoer a better view of his feet than at the beginning of
the movie.
* "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" 2005. Carolyn
Lawrence, adult actress, voices the character of Cindy Vortex, 11
years old, in this series about a super-intelligent boy inventor. In
an episode in which Jimmy and Cindy are stranded on an uncharted
island, Jimmy swims in a lagoon while Cindy lounges nearby. After
swimming underwater, Jimmy surfaces to talk with Cindy and places his
foot on the edge of the lagoon and holds it there in a close-up view.
No freeze frame is required. Alternatively, Cindy at no time is
barefoot in this episode, whether lying by the lagoon or swimming
underwater; she wears her shoes and socks throughout. Jimmy, on the
other hand, is barefoot almost from the first moment of being
stranded, with views ranging from medium to close-up distance. This
episode, entitled "Stranded," was first broadcast May 26, 2005.
* "Strawberry Shortcake: Seaberry Beach Party" 2005. Sarah Heinke,
14 years old, voices the character Strawberry Shortcake, about 6 years
old, in this story of a group of little girls at a beach party and
their various adventures. Strawberry Shortcake appears barefoot with
her friends in many scenes, especially in the second episode of this
two-episode program, in views ranging from distant to extreme close-
up, but mostly in medium close-up. One character, Seaberry Delight,
about 6 years old, voiced by Abigail Leib, 15 years old, has a brief
close-up of the bottoms of her feet while dancing. On the same DVD is
a separate 2-minute video to the main story called "A Tropical Day,"
with scenes throughout where they show their bare feet. In one scene
the girls are sitting down in a kind of "chorus line" on the beach and
performing a song in which they do alternate high kicks with their
legs as the camera pans left to right, showing the soles of
their feet in medium close-up as they do so.
* "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" 2006. In an episode
in which Jimmy seeks Cindy's help to stop an alien television hostess
hypnotizing TV viewers, he literally runs into Cindy at a bus stop
where she is barefoot in returning from a karate convention. She
falls to the ground from the collision with Jimmy and shows the tops
of her bare feet as she does so. Later Jimmy and Cindy are flying to
the house where the broadcast takes place, and as they land Cindy
falls to the ground with her legs splayed and shows the soles of both
her feet for several seconds in medium close-up. Numerous views of
her feet in various angles take place throughout this story, all in
medium close-up. This episode, entitled "One of Us," was first
broadcast on January 24, 2006.
* "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" 2006. In an episode
in which Jimmy is accused and jailed for a crime he did not commit,
Jimmy and his friends escape and enter Cindy's bedroom. There she
shows her right sole in medium close-up when she briefly raises her
foot while arguing with Jimmy about turning him in. This episode,
entitled "Who Framed Jimmy Neutron?", was first broadcast January 27,
2006.
"Up" 2009. Elie Doctor, about 8 years old, voices the character
Ellie, about the same age, and shows her feet in medium close-up while
walking about an old abandoned house. She then shows her soles in
medium close-up as she climbs through the bedroom window of a boy she
met earlier in the day in the old house.
* "Despicable Me" 2010. Miranda Cosgrove, 16 years old; Dana Gaier,
about 13 years old; and Elsie Fisher, about 7 years old, voice the
characters Margo, about 10 years old; Edith, about 7 years old; and
Agnes, about 5 years old, respectively, in this tale of a supervillain
who adopts three orphaned girls to carry out his evil schemes. In
several separate bedroom scenes the girls appear barefoot from medium
distance, with various angles of their feet, including their soles,
but the views are quick and require freeze-frame and zoom to be seen
well.
* "Tangled" 2010. Delaney Rose Stein, 5 years old, voices the
character of young Rapunzel of approximately the same age, and walks
about barefoot in early scenes of the movie. She shows the tops and
sides of her feet, but not her soles, in medium close-up. As the film
progresses and Rapunzel grows to be a 17-year-old, voiced by adult
actress Mandy Moore, the teenager shows numerous views of her feet,
from medium distance to close-up, including her soles. Scenes also
include extreme close-ups of her toes and the tops and sides of her
feet. (Although the teenager Rapunzel, at 17, is beyond the age range
normally shown for this list, she is included here because her feet
are so youthfully drawn that they could belong to a much younger girl,
perhaps even 13.) Except for a scene lasting only seconds in which
the teenage Rapunzel is wearing sandals while sweeping the floor, the
character is barefoot throughout the film, from babyhood to early
childhood
to age 18.
8. TELEVISION GIRLFEET AND BOYFEET
* "The Twilight Zone" 1962. Susan Gordon, 12 years old, is barefoot
in a bedroom scene in medium close-up as she lies down in her pajamas,
and later shows the bottoms of her feet in medium close-up as she and
a double walk barefoot out of the room as twins. This episode,
entitled "The Fugitive," was first broadcast March 9, 1962.
* "The Twilight Zone" 1964. Mary Badham, 11 years old, is barefoot
in the entire episode as she walks about a backyard pool and swims in
it. She shows the bottoms of her feet when she dives in and in some
underwater scenes, all in medium to medium close-up views. This
episode, entitled "The Bewitchin' Pool," was first broadcast June 19,
1964.
* "The Andy Griffith Show" 1964. Ronny Howard, 10 years old, finds a
lost wallet with $50 in it and reclines on top of his bed to study a
toy catalog to see what he can buy. As he lies with his legs out, the
camera shows his feet at a three-quarter angle in medium close-up,
including his soles, and moves in a slow arc to reveal his feet in a
more straight-on view. (Ronny also appears barefoot at the opening
credits of each episode as he walks with a fishing pole to a lake with
his dad, in views that are medium-long distance, in which Ronny shows
his right sole as he throws a rock into the lake while stepping
forward.) This episode, entitled "Opie's Fortune," was first
broadcast November 16, 1964.
* "Bonanza" 1968. Linda Sue Risk, 10 years old, turns up at the
Cartwright ranch as a scruffy child who requires bathing. After her
bath and in some bedroom scenes, she is barefoot and occasionally
shows her soles in medium close-up. This episode, entitled "Little
Girl Lost," was first broadcast November 3, 1968.
* "The Brady Bunch" 1970. Mike Lookinland, 9 years old, sprains his
ankle and must lie in bed to heal. While lying down in his pajamas,
he shows the bottoms of both his bare feet, although the right sole is
wrapped in a bandage and the view of his arch is obscured. The shot
is in medium close-up. This episode, entitled "What Goes Up...", was
first broadcast December 11, 1970.
* "The Brady Bunch" 1971. Susan Olsen, 10 years old, Mike
Lookinland, 10 years old, Eve Plumb, 13 years old, Christopher Knight,
13 years old, Maureen McCormick, 15 years old (and possibly a late-14
at time of filming), and Barry Williams, 16 years old, are trapped in
an abandoned Old West jail. They resort to retrieving the jailhouse
keys by removing their shoes and socks as a way of knocking the keys
off the wall and pulling them to the jail cell. Before the retrieval
attempt, the camera does a slow left-to-right pan of their bare feet
in a legs-only shot from a medium close-up distance. This episode,
entitled "Ghost Town, U.S.A.", was first broadcast September 17, 1971.
* "ZOOM" 1972. Edith Mooers, 8 years old, Danny McGrath, 11 years
old, and Bernadette Yao, 12 years old, are perhaps the most prominent
children who appear barefoot frequently in this public television
series. In the earliest years of the show, every child in the cast
went barefoot as part of the ZOOMers' "look," along with rugby shirts
and dark slacks. There were usually 7 boys and girls in the cast at
any one time during a show, and they would periodically be replaced by
other boys and girls, who would continue the "tradition" of going
barefoot.
* "Wide World Mystery" 1974. Lance Kerwin, 13 years old, portrays
the son of an abusive father in this anthology mystery series, and in
one scene Lance is barefoot as he lies down on the living room couch.
He stretches out his legs over the arm of the couch, with his bare
feet together, then slowly lowers his feet, soles to the camera in
medium close-up, over several seconds. This episode, titled "The
Cloning of Clifford Swimmer," was first broadcast on November 1,
1974.
* "Little House on the Prairie" 1982. Shannen Doherty, 11 years old,
steps barefoot onto a bank after wading with a friend in a stream and
shows the tops and sides of her feet in medium-closeup as she does
so. She then shows her soles in medium distance when she runs home.
This episode, entitled "Rage," was first broadcast October 18, 1982.
* "Punky Brewster" 1984. Soleil Moon Frye, 8 years old, shows the
bottom of one of her feet when she swings her legs up while lying on
the couch in the apartment of her guardian, Henry. When first taped,
Soleil was wearing socks as she lay on the couch, but in a re-shoot
and edit, her feet are bare when she lifts them up. This episode,
entitled "Punky Finds a Home, Part 1," was first broadcast September
16, 1984.
* "Punky Brewster" 1984. Soleil Moon Frye, 8 years old, and Cherie
Johnson, 8 years old, are taken to a lake with other friends by
Punky's guardian Henry to go fishing. Soleil shows her bare feet
several times, including several scenes in which the bottoms of her
feet are seen mostly in medium close-up, such as a scene in which she
dangles her feet from the pier just above the water and then sits
back. Cherie displays the tops and sides of her feet in medium
distance, but not the soles, as she also sits at the pier and dangles
her feet. This episode, entitled "Gone Fishin'," was first broadcast
October 14, 1984.
* "Punky Brewster" 1984. Soleil Moon Frye, 8 years old, displays
various views of her feet in medium close-up, including her soles, as
she climbs into her bed and then consoles her foster father Henry
about their apparently lost opportunity to see the Chicago Cubs in a
playoff game. This episode, entitled "Take Me Out to the Ballgame,"
was first broadcast October 21, 1984.
* "Punky Brewster" 1984. Soleil Moon Frye, 8 years old, is sent to
bed by foster father Henry as he secretly plans to watch a television
operetta without disturbance from Punky. As Soleil climbs into her
bed, the bottoms of her feet are visible in medium close-up. This
episode, entitled "Go to Sleep," was first broadcast November 4, 1984.
* "Punky Brewster" 1984. Soleil Moon Frye, 8 years old, is barefoot
and pillow fighting in her bedroom with Cherie Johnson, 8 years old,
and Ami Foster, 9 years old, both of whom are also barefoot. The
scene is in medium distance. They discuss an upcoming children's
beauty pageant, and a few minutes later Soleil climbs into her bed and
shows the bottoms of her feet in medium close-up as she does so.
Cherie and Ami show quick views of their feet from the sides and tops
but not the soles in medium close-up. This episode, entitled "Miss
Adorable," was first broadcast November 25, 1984.
* "Punky Brewster" 1984. Soleil Moon Frye, 8 years old, shows her
soles in medium close-up as she climbs into bed in this story of her
broken doll named "My" being discarded by her on-screen foster father
Henry. This episode, entitled "Bye Bye My," was first broadcast on
December 9, 1984.
* "Punky Brewster" 1985. Soleil Moon Frye, 8 years old, shows
various angles of her feet, including her soles, in medium close-up
when she goes to bed in this story of Punky and her friends making a
workout video. This episode, entitled "Punky Brewster's Workout," was
first broadcast on February 24, 1985.
* "Punky Brewster" 1985. Soleil Moon Frye, 8 years old, Cherie
Johnson, 9 years old, and Ami Foster, 9 years old, all show their bare
feet when they are surprised from sleep when Punky's dog Brandon pulls
a cord which makes their sleepover tent in the living room collapse.
The three girls then display all angles of their feet in medium close-
up, including the bottoms of their feet, as they walk about the living
room and talk excitedly about getting dolls called "Butter Lettuce
Babies." This episode, entitled "Gals and Dolls," was first broadcast
March 3, 1985.
* "Punky Brewster" 1985. Soleil Moon Frye, 9 years old, confesses to
Henry that she has cheated on an exam, then climbs into bed and shows
the bottom of her left foot in medium close-up as she does so. She
then turns around and extends her legs, and the sole of her right
foot, mostly the upper half, shows just before she places her feet
under the covers. This episode, entitled "Cheaters Never Win," was
first broadcast September 29, 1985. (Soleil may possibly have been 8
years old when this episode was first taped, since her birthday is
August 6, 1976, if the episode was made during earlier summer months
in preparation for the new season.)
* "Punky Brester" 1986. Soleil Moon Frye, 9 years old, sits up in
bed and talks to foster father Henry about her fear of a murderous
stalker in their city. While talking, Soleil has her legs crossed and
shows the top of her left foot in medium close-up, with the right foot
tucked under her leg and out of sight. When Henry moves to tuck her
in, Soleil unfolds her legs and reveals (requiring frame-by-frame
pause control) the horizontal top half of her right foot as she places
both feet under the covers. This episode, entitled "Urban Fear," was
first broadcast January 5, 1986.
* "Punky Brewster" 1986. Soleil Moon Frye, 9 years old, while lying
in bed completes an entry to her diary about the Challenger accident.
She then tosses the covers back and shows the bottoms of both her feet
in medium close-up, although they are in shadow. She then gets out of
bed and goes to Brandon's doghouse, then to the window, and shows her
feet from all angles in medium distance, including her soles, as she
walks. She finally climbs up on the wide window sill to sit and look
at the stars to contemplate her dream of someday becoming an
astronaut. She first stretches her legs out, then brings her knees
up, and displays the tops of her feet in medium close-up as she does
so. This episode, entitled "Accidents Happen," was first broadcast
March 9, 1986.
* "You Can't Do That on Television" 1984. Alasdair Gillis, 12 years
old, but who appears even younger, displays the bottoms of his bare
feet in extreme close-up while lying on a gurney in a doctor's
office. This episode, entitled "Body Parts," was first broadcast
approximately February 1984. (An exact airdate is currently unfound.)
* "Full House" 1987. Candace Cameron, 11 years old, and Jodie
Sweetin, 5 years old, show all angles of their bare feet in medium
distance when their on-screen dad comes into their room while the
girls are in bed in their pajamas. In the opening of the scene, Jodie
awakens to find her dad videotaping her bare feet which are sticking
out from under the covers. When she asks, "Daddy, why are you making
'feet movies'?" he replies, "Because I love you, and I love your
little feet." In a "point-of-view" shot, the studio camera shows the
tops of Jodie's feet in close-up as he tapes with the camcorder. When
Candace wakes up and asks what's going on, Jodie says her dad loves
her and her little feet, and then smilingly lifts her feet from the
bed to show her soles in medium close-up toward the camera. The
father then asks Jodie to leave for a moment so he can talk to Candace
alone, and Jodie shows her soles briefly as she brings her feet out
from
under the covers. Dad then goes over to Candace's bed, and her legs
are stretched out on top of the bedspread, with the soles of her feet
shown in medium close-up directly to the camera. (Candace, Jodie, and
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen numerous times showed their bare feet
during the eight-season run of the sitcom; this episode is selected as
one example for its close-ups of Candace and Jodie's feet.) This
episode, entitled "Daddy's Home," was first broadcast October 23,
1987.
* "Ramona" 1988. Sarah Polley, 8 years old, climbs into bed while
wearing her new pajamas and has her slippers removed by her mother.
Sarah's soles are fully in view in medium close-up when this occurs,
and her bare feet continue to show as she slips her feet beneath the
covers. This episode, entitled "New Pajamas," was first broadcast in
early 1988, but an exact air date has not yet been determined from
online sources. "New Pajamas" was the sixth episode (the first having
aired in January 1988) which on a weekly broadcast basis would place
it in either January or February 1988. Sarah turned 9 in January
1988, and while it is possible she may have been 9 when the episode
was filmed, assuming it was filmed shortly after the series began
broadcasting, it is more likely that the sixth episode was wrapped
while she was still 8, thus the age designated for this entry. In
this episode, she in fact looks even younger than 8.
* "Gerbert" 1990s. Numerous boys and girls are barefoot in one of
the episodes during a special segment called "Things That Go," in
which the children's feet are the focus. The camera frequently shows
the bottoms of the boys' and girls' feet in close-ups. This episode,
entitled "The Crush," was rotated in broadcast with other episodes
during the early 1990s.
* "Full House" 1990. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, 4 years old,
sharing the role of the single character Michelle, show various angles
of their feet, including their soles, in an episode in which Michelle
starts a pillow fight and breaks a window and gets her sisters in
trouble. In various scenes, all in medium views, Michelle gets out of
bed and walks around in her pajamas and is picked up by her father;
later her father lifts her out of an inflatable swimming pool which
she has dragged into the kitchen, while she wears a swimsuit; and
later still she is put to bed in her pajamas and extends her legs out
on top of the covers, towards the camera, to show the bottoms of her
feet. (As noted earlier, Candace Cameron, Jodie Sweetin, and Mary-
Kate and Ashley numerous times showed their bare feet during the eight-
season run of the sitcom; this episode is selected as one example for
its close-ups of Mary-Kate and Ashley's feet.) This episode, entitled
"Crimes and Michelle's Demeanor," was first broadcast September 28,
1990.
* "Party of Five" 1994. Lacey Chabert, 12 years old, stands barefoot
in her pajamas in a bucket of ice water on the outside patio to give
herself a cold as "penance" for believing she has given a cold to her
boyfriend. Her oldest brother Charlie, thinking this is silly, picks
Lacey up and throws her over his shoulder to carry her back into the
house, revealing Lacey's wet bare feet in medium close-up as she is
carried. This episode, entitled "It's Not Easy Being Green," was
first broadcast January 11, 1995.
* "Full House" 1995. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, 8 years old, who
both play the character Michelle, show the bottoms of their feet when
Michelle worries that her feet are too big after being teased by her
two older sisters. Michelle has several barefoot scenes, and she
displays her soles in close-up while lying in bed in her pajamas.
(Again, as noted earlier, Candace Cameron, Jodie Sweetin, and Mary-
Kate and Ashley numerous times showed their bare feet during the eight-
season run of the sitcom; this episode is selected as one example for
its close-ups of Mary-Kate and Ashley's feet.) This episode, entitled
"My Left and Right Foot," was first broadcast January 31, 1995.
* "7th Heaven" 1999. MacKenzie Rosman, 9 years old, is lying
barefoot on a bed with her on-screen brother, David Gallagher, 14
years old, and the camera shows the bottoms of MacKenzie's feet in
medium close-up for several seconds. David is also barefoot but the
view is obscured. In this long-running series, MacKenzie and David
appeared barefoot frequently, most often in the bedroom scenes, and
the episode noted here is representative of the many times they showed
their feet. This episode, entitled "The Tattle Tale Heart," was first
broadcast September 20, 1999.
* "Malcolm in the Middle" 2000. Erik Per Sullivan, 8 years old, lies
barefoot on his bed, but his feet are the only part of him which
appears in this scene. Frankie Muniz, 14 years old (but appears to be
about 12, his character's age), who plays Malcolm, is describing in a
voice-over about the various members of his family, and when the
camera cuts to a close-up of Eric's soles, Frankie says, "This is my
little brother Dewey's ice-cold feet." The scene lasts perhaps three
seconds, long enough to record and view again. Frankie's feet also
appear in the opening credits of the show as he rests his feet on a
coffee table in front of the television with his soles showing to the
camera in medium close-up. This first episode of the first season,
entitled only "Pilot," was first broadcast January 9, 2000.
* "George Lopez" 2002. Luis Armand Garcia, 12 years old, appears
barefoot in the opening credits as he bounces apparently on a
trampoline. When his upper body rises farthest from the camera, he
extends his legs to show his feet in close-up to the lens, including
his soles. The action is in slow-motion, so a freeze-frame reveals an
even clearer view of the bottoms of his feet. (Note: The current
opening credit sequence may be the original one; the writer of this
list is unsure. If the opening is the latest for this series, then
Luis is shown at 12; if the opening was shot when the series was first
broadcast in 2002 and is still being used, then Luis would have been
10 years old at that time.)
* "According to Jim" 2003. Taylor Atelian, 8 years old, and Billi
Bruno, 6 years old, frequently appear barefoot in this sitcom which
first aired in 2001 when Taylor and Billi were 6 and 4, respectively.
In many episodes they are seen wearing pajamas and showing their bare
feet, including their soles. Although many examples can be cited, the
one chosen here for description is an episode which depicted the girls
feeling spooked at home after seeing a violent sci-fi film featuring a
female robot. In one scene they run barefoot in their pajamas into
their parents' bed and briefly show the bottoms of their feet as well
as regular views of the tops and sides of their feet in medium close-
up distances. This episode, entitled "Scary Movie," was first
broadcast November 4, 2003.
* "This is Daniel Cook" 2004. Daniel Cook, 7 years old, attends a
gymnastics class and removes his shoes and socks to participate in the
activities in this reality/documentary series. The camera shows the
bottoms of his feet in medium close-up as he first sits on the mat,
then shows the tops of his feet in close-up as he walks along a
balance beam. Later he shows his soles in medium close-up as he
swings to and fro on the rings in an attempt to pull himself up on
them. This episode, entitled "This is Daniel Cook at Gymnastics," was
first broadcast in 2004. (The exact month and day is unknown.)
* "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" 2005. Dylan Sprouse and Cole
Sprouse, 12 years old and identical twins, show the bottoms of their
bare feet in medium close-up while lounging poolside at the hotel
where they live, in this Disney Channel series. In bathing trunks,
they lie on recliners by the pool with their legs outstretched towards
the camera, which pans slowly from viewer's left to right, as Cole --
feet lying slightly apart on the recliner -- wiggles his toes, while
Dylan has one foot crossed and resting on the other. (The twins are
distinguishable because Cole is slightly more slender in body and face
and is slightly shorter than Dylan.) There are other barefoot boys as
well in the recliner scene while the camera pans. Additionally, all
the boys, including Dylan and Cole, show their feet again when they
get into the pool. In various episodes of this series the twins
appear barefoot, but this particular show is representative and
shows the best views of their feet, especially their soles. The pan
shot also appears in abbreviated form in the opening credits of every
first-season show. This episode, entitled "Hotel Hangout," was first
shown on the Disney channel on March 18, 2005.
* "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" 2006. Cole Sprouse, 14 years
old, is ill with the flu and shows the bottoms of his feet in medium
close-up when the fold-out couch he is lying in suddenly folds
backward to reveal his feet when the mattress stops in an upward
position. Prior to the folding action his feet were out of view.
This episode, entitled "Nurse Zack," was first shown on the Disney
Channel on December 8, 2006.
* "This is Emily Yeung" 2006. Emily Yeung, about 6 years old, learns
about African dance and appears barefoot while performing, in this
reality/documentary series which followed "This is Daniel Cook." At
one point she sits on the floor with her legs out and shows the
bottoms of her feet to the camera in medium close-up. Other scenes
show her feet in medium distance. This episode, entitled "This is
Emily Yeung Learning an African Dance," was first broadcast on
September 14, 2006. (Emily was born in 2000, but at the time of this
edition an exact month and day of her birthdate is unknown. She may
have been 5 when this episode was shot.)
* "iCarly" 2007. Miranda Cosgrove, 14 years old, and Jennette
McCurdy, 15 years old, show the soles of their feet in extreme close-
up during the opening credits sequence of this series. While lying
down they hold their feet up to the camera lens and wiggle their toes
as they record themselves. (Jennette at 15 is perhaps thought by some
to be too old for this list, which describes the feet of "children",
but she is included here because she appears alongside Miranda in the
same barefoot shot.)
* "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" 2008. Cole Sprouse, 15 years
old, takes karate lessons and works out barefoot in the living room of
his suite. He shows both feet in medium close-up as he strikes a
pillow with his left foot, partially showing his sole as he twists his
foot. This episode, entitled "Romancing the Phone," was first shown
on the Disney Channel on April 19, 2008. (Some would say that at 15
years old Cole Sprouse has "aged out" of this list, which normally
does not include anyone over 14, but he appears far younger than his
age in this episode and is included here because his feet look like
those of a 13-year-old.)
* "The New Adventures of Old Christine" 2008. Trevor Gagnon, 12
years old, displays his feet in medium close-up during a karate class
near the end of the episode. All angles of his feet are shown,
including his soles when he performs kicks, but because of the
quickness of the motions, views require freeze-frame. This episode,
entitled "Self-Esteem Tempura," was first broadcast on November 12,
2008. (Trevor was possibly 13 when the scene was filmed, since he was
born in September 1995, but typically series episodes are filmed
months in advance.)
* "Wizards of Waverly Place" 2011. Bailee Madison, 11 years old,
shows the bottoms of her feet in medium distance when she falls to the
mat during a karate class. The view of her soles lasts about 30
seconds. At the beginning of the karate scene she walks about on the
mat barefoot and displays the sides of her feet in medium distance,
although the views are somewhat difficult because the long leg length
of her karate uniform nearly covers them. There are moments during
the scene when her feet are shown in medium close-up, but the views
are quick and often blurry. This episode, entitled "Daddy's Little
Girl," was first shown on the Disney Channel on January 21, 2011.
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