Theatre Masks (1956)

London At the Theatre Zoo, St Martin’s Lane, Dyke Richens and Eric Gledhill demonstrate their mask making skills. M/S Harold Smith puts on a crocodile mask. C/U crocodile mask and then a devil mask making faces. An ’Oliver Hardy’ mask blows his nose, using a large white handkerchief. M/S Dyke, in his workshop, pouring white latex solution into bowl . C/U Three large colourful grotesque style masks of a clown, a devil and ’Donald Duck’. M/S Dyke lifts an ape man mask from the mould and looks at it, C/U painting the mask, hand dipping brush into paint . C/U two grinning masks of a clown and a dwarf. M/S Dyke fixes long hair to ape man mask,then puts mask on and leans menacingly toward camera. M/S Eric Gledhill, Dyke’s partner, fits cat’s mask onto model, Sally Matthews, she shakes her head. Douglas Gledhill, in clown’s mask, makes faces .Gledhill fixes comical monkey mask onto model. C/U ’nanny’ mask, which the model removes and puts on a big baby mask and pretends to suck her thumb. C/U shot of m