Home Sauna Bath (1958)

Southgate, London. M, S of a birch tree, a cutter reaches up and snips off a branch. M, S of a garden, the man with the cutter is Peter Hilgeland, he picks up the fallen branch and walks off. M, S of Peter s father Helmut Hilgeland in shorts surrounded by three young women dressed in bathing suits sat beside a swimming pool in another part of the garden. Helmut s daughter Elke is one of the girls, she has on a brown swimming costume. Next to her in a red costume is Pauline and the other girl is Vali, she is in green. Helmut is tearing off bits of birch, they are joined by Peter who puts his birch down and takes off his top to go swimming. C, U of the birch branch being picked up by Helmut, M, S of him putting a bit of string in his mouth and then tying it round the branch. M, S of him handing the bundles of birch to the three girls. C, U of Pauline, she dips the birch in the swimming pool and starts hitting her back and arms with it. The narrator says this is the only private sauna bath in London,