Exercise By Hypnosis Aka Gym Hypnotist (1958)

Charing Cross, London. M/S of a woman’s bare legs and sandalled feet. Camera tilts up to reveal the rest of the woman, model Wendy Peters - she is young and slim, dressed in shorts and a tee-shirt and she is exercising with weights. The narrator explains that “once upon a time a gymnasium was strictly male territory then literally overnight the so called weaker sex began to muscle in in both senses“. Behind her is an exercise bench. M/S of Wendy exercising. According to the narrator girls like Wendy add a “touch of glamour“ to the gym and the reason for “this sudden interest“ was “the discovery“ that weight-training was good for the figure - “any hard work of course is still left to the men“. She places the two small weights on the floor, picks up a dumbbell and begins to exercise. C/U of Wendy lifting the dumbbell. C/U of a pulley. Camera tilts down to reveal that the pulley is part of a weight lifting mechanism being used by a hefty looking male weightlifter, Chic Linton, dressed in nothing bu