Ladies Rifle Club Aka Rifle Range (1958)

London. M/S of a basement room filled with tables, chairs, a large blackboard and various games. In the foreground, two women are playing table skittles. The women swing a weighted pendulum attached to a post on the table to knock over the skittles. In the background another woman is marking scores on a blackboard. Other women are chatting, reading or playing ’shove halfpenny’. M/S of the woman at the blackboard. In front of her two women are playing cards at a table. The narrator asks mischievously, “See if you can guess where we are? A bottle party perhaps? The prelude to a jive session? Or is it a gambling den? Notice the absence of men...“ C/U of Pat White cleaning her rifle. C/U of Pat’s face. Tilt down to her immaculately manicured hands assembling the gun. C/U of her back - Pat wears a jacket decorated with various badges associated with shooting. The narrator explains that a group of women started this rifle club as men refused to shoot in mixd teams - “the cowards!“ M/S of a line of r