Baby Chicks Aka Frying Pan Chicks (1958)

Chertsey, Surrey. Glamorous woman walks into a “modern“ 1950s kitchen which has lots of “labour saving gadgets.“ She walks over to the cooker and checks on something she is cooking in a saucepan. She lifts the lid off an electric frying pan and uses a spoon to baste the joint of meat she is cooking. There are potatoes surrounding the joint of meat - C/U of the pan and contents. Low angle shot of the woman concentrating on her work and C/U of the control dial on the handle of the pan. She replaces the lid on the pan. Exterior. C/U of the frying pan. Eggs are being placed in the pan - they are still in their shells. This illustrates another use for the pan. M/S showing man placing the eggs in the pan. Narrator poses rhetorical questions about what could be happening - roasting the eggs perhaps. C/U of dial being turned. Various shots of man and the eggs in the pan. The pan is being used as an incubator. Woman joins the man - he is 72 year old George Church, an electrical engineer of Chert
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