Puppet Fashion Show (1960)

M/S of a woman walking along a catwalk in The Cypress Club, London, modelling a brown and cream silk dress and matching chiffon coat; she is rather less svelte than your average model. People sit watching at tables as she turns to show off the outfit. C/U of an extremely glamorous puppet called Mamselle Zizi who has blonde curled hair, very long eyelashes and glossy red lips; tilt down to show she is wearing a figure hugging jewel encrusted silver gown, a white fur stole and a diamond choker. C/U of another marionette’s feet (wearing court shoes, of course!), tilt up to show she is wearing a copy of the brown silk dress we saw being modelled earlier. This puppet, Germaine, is whisked out of shot; we pan left to see the next puppet, Martine, in a diamond tiara, necklace and earrings. M/S of Maisie Mumford operating the strings of Germaine before a mirror, while in the background Frank Mumford dresses a voluptuous blonde puppet called Madame Linda who is hanging rather elegantly by her strings from a