Stratford Banquet (1966)

Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. A hotel puts on an Elizabethan-style banquet as a sales incentive prize for a party of American businessmen. L/S of the Alveston Manor Hotel, people walk to the entrance dressed in Shakespearean costumes. Interior. M/S of costumed people in the hotel lobby. M/S of serving wenches and men in tights serving beer from barrels. C/U of a man turning a tap on the barrel to draw beer. C/U of a tankard being filled. M/S of a chef dressing a pig’s head, waiting staff walk past carrying elaborate dishes. C/U of roast sucking pig being placed on the banquet table. C/U of the chef dressing the head. C/U of a pheasant (with feathers) on a silver platter. C/U of more fancy dishes, including a whole salmon. C/U of roast duck, pan to roast swan. C/U of a yeoman guard on the front door. M/S of two guards with crossed spears guarding the door, the mayor and his wife enter, the guards lift their spears. Various shots of a long buffet banquet, American tourists are