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Title: WATERING THE GARDENER

Reference number: 6412

Date: 1968*

Director: filmed by John Welford

Sound: sound

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 10:26 minsc

Description: Amateur comedy film featuring a bikini-clad woman sunbathing in her garden. A young boy is trying to retrieve his ball from a hose wielding gardener next door. Various high jinks ensue until the gardener is tricked into soaking himself.

Credits: Cast
girl Katy Longmuir
gardener Robert McVinnie
boy Douglas Maxwell
rex Rex Knowles
cam. Ken Fleming
pd. Tom Whyte

cameraman Ken Fleming
p. Tom Whyte
d. John Welford

Shotlist: title. [b&w] (0.35) In 1895 Louis Lumiére made the first comedy film. It was called "L'Arroseur Arróse" ("The Waterer Watered"). Now over 70 years later, we take up the story once again....[col] (0.54) Ext., pan garden flowers and along to brief glimpse of young woman lying on sun lounger in white bikini. Her hand adjusts radio. C/u radio. (1.47) ms blonde woman standing up adjusting towel and lying back down. She looks up at sky. Blue sky. C/u woman's face, brief glimpse of object being thrown up behind wall in background. (2.37) Elderly male gardener walking around in circle with one welly boot not quite on; c/u gardener adjusting tie and bunnet in mirror outside. (3.19) Rearview gardener holding hose, no water flowing. Hose with water now flowing. Gardener watering plants, waters camera. Dog looking out of window as gardener waters a bicycle with hose. (4.52) C/u gardener's face as he moves hose side to side, accidentally splashing woman on other side of wall. She looks up at blue sky. She settles back down, a ball comes over from adjacent garden and hits her in stomach. Woman throws it back into gardener's garden. (6.19) C/u gardener lighting pipe. Brief view small boy looking over wall. Boy sneaks over wall to attempt and retrieve ball, apparently oblivious gardener flicks hose at him. (7.48) Boxer briefly appears from gardeners house into garden. Boy sneaks around and stands on hose, behind shed. Water flow stops. Gardener checks end of hose only to be sprayed in face. He chases boy only for abandoned hose to spray over wall. (9.49) Woman now sitting in bath outside, washing herself under the spray. She lifts soaking wet radio from tub and throws it away. End. (10.26)