MS Stanley Baker embracing woman, pan Harry Secombe talking to a bespectacled man and then dancing off with Hughie Green, they stop to pull faces at the camera. CU Harry Secombe, Hughie Green and Benny Hill. LS's...
MS Stanley Baker embracing woman, pan Harry Secombe talking to a bespectacled man and then dancing off with Hughie Green, they stop to pull faces at the camera. CU Harry Secombe, Hughie Green and Benny Hill. LS's of water chute with boat coming down. Travel shot past girls waving. CU Shirley Bassey, Stanley Baker, Harry Secombe and Benny Hill in water chute boat as they come round and hit water. Various shots crowd and autograph hunters watching etc.
MS Shirley Bassey, Stanley Baker, Benny Hill and Harry Secombe coming off ride, Benny Hill is smoking and Secombe is feigning illness and being helped along by Hughie Green. MS Secombe, Benny Hill and Stanley Baker coming towards camera mugging etc. MS pan from Hughie Green taking photograph to couple kissing, pan back to Green who then goes and kisses the girl himself. MS David Kossoff signing autographs. MS hands in elaborately decorated gloves signing autographs. MS Mike and Bernie Winters signing autographs. MS pan from photographer to Chas McDevitt, Shirley Bassey and Bert Weedon having their photographs taken. MS notice 'take your autograph from the stars and move along'. Elevated LS looking down on stars surrounded by people.
MS Secombe, Stanley Baker and members of the 'Army Game'. MS Trevor Howard, Edmund Purdom and Michael Medwin. MS's Norman Rossington, Ted Lune and Michael Medwin in army clothes from 'Army Game' eating big sausage. CU Robert Morley. MS Big Wheel in action. Various shots as Norman Rossington, Michael Medwin and a girl get into car on Big Wheel. various shots from it as it goes round. Elevated MS Festival Gardens. Various shots crowds of people.
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