Britain’s First Beauty Farm (1960)

M/S showing Leida Costigan, who runs the beauty farm, exercising a client on a field in the garden or grounds of a country house in Knebworth; in the foreground is glamorous Brenda Lomax on a rowing machine. Both exercisers are wearing swimsuits. C/Us from the front and behind of BL rowing rather gracefully, and smiling; she is wearing a nice yellow swimsuit. Great M/S of women exercising in the field; two in the background are using chest-expander type equipment, while Wilhemena Robinson in the foreground is sitting down and holding onto a hoop that her legs are sticking through as she moves them in a cycling fashion; an exercise mistress kneels behind her. C/U of BL’s head and shoulders, she is obviously balancing on something; tilt down to show her on a Bongo-Bongo Board (a flat board mounted on a cylinder), rocking from side to side. Commentator says “At Knebworth in Hertfordshire we called in at Britain’s only Beauty Farm where relaxation, as well as exercise is part of the treatment; and wher