Oriental Air Hostesses (1956)

M/S of a group of Chinese and Japanese girls in traditional costume watching Cynthia Arpthorp, Senior Air Stewardess at the BOAC School in Heston, London, fit out a girl (could be Shirley Dee) in the BOAC Air Stewardess uniform. C/U as Cynthia adjusts the girl’s hat and turns her around to show how the hat should be worn; C/U of a Japanese girl, Nachiko Sagawa, in the group who also wears the uniform; she adjusts her hat too and smiles. C/Us of Chinese girls, (Grace Eva Chang, Rosa Wou and Jenny Wang) watching; tilt down to show their satin dresses with split skirts (’cheong sams’); C/U of a Japanese girl looking at a book; tilt down to show her traditional kimono, and the split-skirted cheong sam of Ruby Huang beside her. C/U of two pairs of feet belonging to Chinese girls wearing court shoes; panning left to show two pairs of Japanese girls’ feet in traditional Japanese shoes (wedge-soled flip-flops - Kiri-clogs?) High angle M/S as the girl in the usual BOAC uniform walks off and another girl wal