Story featuring beach games with bottles. Part of the STREAMLANED issue.
A group of young women sit in swim wear on a beach waiting to start a competition for drinking milk from bottles through a straw.
Pan along line of girls to a man in his swimming trunks who gives them the order to start drinking.
Various good shots of girls sucking at their straws madly trying to drink up all their milk.
The man tells them when to stop drinking. He then inspects the girls bottles to see who has drunk the most. He raises the arm of the winner.
We now see another beach game - a row of girls dangle strings with rings tied on the end over a row of bottles. They are trying to get the ring around the neck of the bottles. Various shots of girls, rings and bottle - until finally CU of bottle with ring around its neck.
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