Exercise By Hypnosis Aka Gym Hypnotist (1958)

Charing Cross, London. M, S of a woman s bare legs and sandalled feet. Camera tilts up to reveal the rest of the woman, model Wendy Peters she is young and slim, dressed in shorts and a teeshirt and she is exercising with weights. The narrator explains that once upon a time a gymnasium was strictly male territory then literally overnight the so called weaker sex began to muscle in in both senses. Behind her is an exercise bench. M, S of Wendy exercising. According to the narrator girls like Wendy add a touch of glamour to the gym and the reason for this sudden interest was the discovery that weighttraining was good for the figure any hard work of course is still left to the men. She places the two small weights on the floor, picks up a dumbbell and begins to exercise. C, U of Wendy lifting the dumbbell. C, U of a pulley. Camera tilts down to reveal that the pulley is part of a weight lifting mechanism being used by a hefty looking male weightlifter, Chic Linton, dressed in nothing bu