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Title: RIC HAS A BATH

Reference number: 1124

Date: 1949 - 1950

Director: [filmed by Enrico Cocozza]

Production company: Supramont Pictures

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 7.43 mins

Description: The story of a dog having a bath.

Specially commended by Amateur Cine World.

Credits: Enrico Cocozza presents Russel Laing and Gerard Cahill, and Ric the Dog

Shotlist: ocs (0.58) pair of boys play fight with Ric in a alley next to a house; (2.18) boys run up stairs to a flat, returning with pails of water and a tin bath (3.08) San Izal disinfectant is added to the bath water (3.17) Nic is grabbed by the scruff, pulled and pushed into the bath; (4.19) the boys clean Nic's coat; c/u Nic's face (5.04) c/u a bottle of "drene" shampoo; c/u drene is rubbed onto Nic's head, before being rinsed (5.45) Nic shakes himself out (5.51) boys pour the bath out; camera pans over their wet clothes (6.33) boys and Nic run away through the streets (7.04) boys and dog running through wooded lane (7.20) The End (7.33) [soundtrack continues until 7.43]