Farm Girl Beauty (1957)

London and Essex. Top shot of a desk covered in black and white photographs of attractive young women. M, S of a middle aged woman, Ann Seymour, the beauty editor of a leading women s monthly magazine Woman and Beauty sitting at the desk looking at the photographs. Her assistant enters and joins Ann looking at the photographs of applicants entering the beauty of the month competition. C, U of Ann s hand holding a picture of Mary Sorrell, a farm girl with a natural loveliness, one that has not yet had the advantages of perfectionist grooming. Chingford, Essex. Exterior. M, S of Mary coming out of the front door of a farmhouse dressed in wellington boots and holding two buckets. Mary smiles as she walks past the camera. M, S of a chicken coup. Mary enters and begins to fill a trough with grain, all the chickens crowd hungrily around. C, U of Mary, tilt down to the chickens. Low angle M, S of geese waddling. M, S of a pigsty according to the narrator one of Mary s specialities