Spooning (1960)

Pinto Collection of Wooden Bygones, Northwood, Middlesex. C/U of a man’s hands stirring a cup of tea and placing the spoon on the saucer; pulling back for M/S of Edward Pinto sitting next to his wife, Eva, and examining a spoon while Eva makes notes. C/Us of a carved wooden spoon with three hearts carved in tip of the handle as commentator talks of the history of Welsh love spoons. Edward selects another spoon from the many examples on the table before them; C/U of this 18th century spoon with a window-type panel that would have originally carried initials or an inscription. C/U as Eva makes notes; C/U of another spoon made from beechwood, with heart shapes carved from the handle and two commas, which commentator informs us were ancient symbols of nostrils, through which the soul escaped at death, “So the message here was probably ’I am yours, heart and soul, in life and death’“. C/U of another spoon, this one has twin bowls. Eva turns the pages of a reference book showing pictures of various love