Tommy Cooper’s Stamps (1960)

M/S of a room in Chiswick, London, with various pictures hanging on the walls, a chair, bookcases; a man walks into shot wearing a grey suit and red fez hat (although we only see him from the back it is obviously Tommy Cooper). He looks at the centre painting and adjusts it so that it hangs crooked, then moves it again to make it even more crooked, shrugs then walks out of shot. M/S of the painting as a lady comes into shot (probably his wife, Gwen Cooper); she shakes her head in TC’s direction and straightens the painting. C/U and extreme C/Us of the painting of a church and market scene as we can see it is made of stamps, as is everything else in the room; commentator says it’s “the brainchild and life’s work of one man, the great circus clown and pantomimist Albert Shafer who died in 1959 at the age of 83. The ’stamp room’ as it’s called, took him 60 years to construct“. M/S of another corner of the room; more paintings, models of a cockerel and ship and a bookcase full of books; TC comes into sho