Slim Jim (1961)
M, S of ladies in swim suits parading alongside a huge swimming pool at Butlin s Holiday Camp in Clacton, Essex; a large crowd of people watch in the scorching sun. M, S looking through a cutout shape at a crowd of people watching and laughing. C, U of a man s face in profile, trying to fit into a shape cut out of a large board. Commentator says Whether he s a chubby hubby or a slim Jim, the winner is the one whose shape best fits the cutouts, as we see C, U of the man s stomach, not quite filling the cut out figure; tilt up as he stretches to fit at the chest and head. He can t quite fill it so shakes his head and walks off behind the board as we pan right to show a Redcoat (in blue blazer) talking to the audience through a microphone. M, S of the audience laughing. M, S of a Redcoat, dressed Norman Wisdomstyle, trying to lever a man into a shape in the board. C, U of the man s face, then M, S of the audience applauding as he would see it from inside the cut out shape. The Norman Wisdomtype then
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