Windmill Girls And Catamaran (1959)

London’s West End. M/S of two Windmill Girls dressed in blouses and knickers sitting back stage in their dressing room. One girl is powdering her nose, the other is reading a book titled ’Plain Sailing’ and fiddling with a piece of rope. C/U of another Windmill Girl, Ruth Calvert, chatting. M/S of a group of scantily dressed Windmill Girls sitting on and around a half constructed catamaran parked in their dressing room - “without any boat-building experience, the girls have collaborated to construct a ’do-it-yourself’ catamaran“. M/S of the girls working on the boat: looking at the book, unravelling the ropes and sails and passing around bits of the mast. Two of the girls exit to perform on stage - the narrator explains, “usually, the girls spend about ten minutes on stage, followed by twenty minutes off: magazines, crossword puzzles and knitting are all right in their way to fill in spare time - but they are not really that constructive“. The remaining girls fix together the mast and boom - “anothe