Floating Hotel Aka Transvaal Castle (1962)

A cruise from Southampton to Cape Town, these places are not shown but it does show Las Palmas. L/S of a plush twin bedded hotel room, a maid walks into the room carrying a breakfast tray. She takes it over to a glamorous young lady who is sat up in bed. M/S as the maid places the tray on her knee and leaves. The tray contains fruit and toast, the woman unfurls her napkin and picks up a peach. C/U as she starts to peel it with a knife, the camera pans up to her face, she looks up. M/S of the sea through the windows. L/S of a room in the hotel with various people reading or playing cards and chess. M/S of a coal effect fire in the hearth. M/S of two ladies playing cards at a table, M/S of a clock on the wall. Exterior. L/S from a high angle of a ship, the narrator explains that the rooms are on the first floating hotel, the 33,000 ton ’Transvaal Castle’. It runs from Southampton to South Africa and the guests have the run of the ship. M/S of two ladies lying on sun loungers on the deck, they a