Elizabethan Dinner (1961)

M/S of people in modern dress sitting at a long dining table in the Elizabethan Room of The Gore Hotel, London; they are attended by Elizabethan serving wenches and a man in costume plays a lute. Another couple enter the room; they are shown to their places at the table by a buxom blonde serving wench who calls for a toast to the couple (natural sound); the other diners raise their goblets to them. M/S and C/Us of a wench turning and basting a suckling pig on a spit in a fireplace; the ground is strewn with straw. Two wenches enter the dining room; one carries a roasted boar’s head, the other a roasted peacock, which seems to be set upon a stuffed peacock with all it’s feathers in place and tail fanned out behind. This wench serves some guests to some peacock, with some difficulty (I think that fork is a bit small for serving with, dearie). The other girl has more luck in serving slices of boar. M/S of a man, John Rammell, talking to the lady sitting beside him at the dining table; a wench comes bet