Direction and Photography: Terry Ashwood. Film Editor: Lionel Hoare. Script: Tom Twigge. Sound Supervisor: W.S. Bland. Recordists: Jim Morris and A. Simon. Commentary: Chappie D'Amato.
Direction and Photography: Terry Ashwood. Film Editor: Lionel Hoare. Script: Tom Twigge. Sound Supervisor: W.S. Bland. Recordists: Jim Morris and A. Simon. Commentary: Chappie D'Amato.
Reel 1. London at night. Couple looking at a map.
Leyon's Chinese Restaurant. Pan across bowls of food. Kitchen of restaurant - food preparation. Waiters. A couple eating with chopsticks, then with forks. Two Chinese men eating.
Knightsbridge Studio Club. Jimmy Cummings Band play a Rhumba. Dancing. C/U of maracas. Couples drinking, smoking and laughing.
An Indian restaurant (Veeraswami?). C/U of menu. Waiters and waitresses in traditional dress serve at tables. C/U of furnishings. Women smoking and choosing from the menu. C/U of the food.
Russian restaurant called Troika in Bloomsbury. C/U of menu. Waitress in traditional dress sings. C/Us of diners and the food on tables.
Note: There are two versions of this film - A & B, to this cataloguer they seem to be the same. Two prints exist. Not sure of some of the name spellings in this record - to check.
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