Farm Girl Beauty (1957)

London and Essex. Top shot of a desk covered in black and white photographs of attractive young women. M/S of a middle aged woman, Ann Seymour, the beauty editor of a “leading women’s monthly magazine“ - ’Woman and Beauty’ - sitting at the desk looking at the photographs. Her assistant enters and joins Ann looking at the photographs of applicants entering the “beauty of the month“ competition. C/U of Ann’s hand holding a picture of Mary Sorrell, a farm girl with a “natural loveliness, one that has not yet had the advantages of perfectionist grooming“. Chingford, Essex. Exterior. M/S of Mary coming out of the front door of a farmhouse dressed in wellington boots and holding two buckets. Mary smiles as she walks past the camera. M/S of a chicken coup. Mary enters and begins to fill a trough with grain, all the chickens crowd hungrily around. C/U of Mary, tilt down to the chickens. Low angle M/S of geese waddling. M/S of a pigsty - according to the narrator “one of Mary’s specialities