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Title: LET ME RELAX!

Reference number: 5094

Date: 1939

Director: [filmed by Henry Cocozza]

Production company: Supramont Pictures

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 9.06 mins

Description: A young man tries to relax in his garden whilst constantly being interrupted.

Credits: A Supramont Picture
Henry Cocozza presents Jim Barclay Reid in "Let Me Relax" with Helene Lamor, Billy Skipper, George Ripper, & David Reade.
production designed by Henry Cocozza from an idea suggested by Enrico Cocozza. musical setting David Reade
technical ass. James Reid.
Cast. The Relaxer - J.B. Reid, The Slingers - G. Ripper & D. Reade, The Temptress - H. Lamor, The Athlete - Billy Skipper.

Shotlist: [shotlisted from VHS, BBC timecode at 25fps. Please note overall running time at actual speed of 18fps = 9.06 mins]

title and credits (0.24) On a sunny afternoon our hero is enjoying the "uninterrupted" bliss of complete relaxation.... young man seated in his garden listening to his gramophone record player and enjoying a cigarette when two young boys begin to interrupt him with their toy slings (2.46) he catches them and knocks their heads together (3.20) girl approaches young man and asks "Hoo aboot a tanner fur the pictars!" the young man gives her the money eventually. The young man eats greedily, happy again to be alone (4.53) a young boy approaches with a football and also demands money - the young man is irritated by this and they have an argument resulting in the young man soaking the boy with his tonic dispenser, the boy runs off (5.24) the young man relaxes in his chair and eventually falls off his seat and doesn't move (6.15) The End, credit (6.21) the main players in the film, including a young Enrico Cocozza, take a bow for the camera (6.34)