Dolls’ Surgeon (1960)

C/U panning along three shelves holding piles of dolls’ heads in different sizes and colours. M/S showing two young girls, Katherine (elder) and Bridget (younger) Masters, with the doll repairer, Barry Elder, in his workshop, as he takes a doll with no arms (or clothes!) and sparse hair out of a bag (it could be a talking doll as she seems to have a small circular speaker coming out of her stomach); C/U as BE takes the doll’s arms out of the bag; C/U of Bridget watching. C/Us of the doll and BE as he fixes the arms, twisting some cord into position with some pliers, attaches it to one of the arms, threads it through the doll’s torso and attaches it to the other arm on the other side; C/Us of the two girls watching. Commentator says “At this dolls’ hospital in Hammersmith, London, ’Doctor’ Barry Elder’s healing hands are in such demand that he works round the clock“. M/S of BE and the girls at the worktable as he moves the doll’s arms to show they