Mighty Mouse (1961)

East Molesey, Surrey. Various shots of artist Terence Cuneo working on a painting of The Queen opening the Royal College of Gynaecology; he is working from a ceremonial robe on a dummy in his studio. He then sets up a model of a tiny mouse and paints it in the corner of the painting; this is his trademark, appearing in all his paintings. Various shots of Cuneo’s painting of The Royal Leicestershire Regiment in action in the Burma Campaign; we see the mouse hiding behind a bamboo cane. C/U tilting down of a self-portrait of Cuneo as a Deputy Marshall; commentator says the artist really is a Deputy Marshall of Tombstone, Arizona; pan right at the bottom of the painting to show a tiny mouse. Various shots of a painting of the launching of Britain’s first atomic submarine; the little mouse is seen watching the proceedings. M/S of a painting of a family of mice in clothes; Cuneo’s beautiful Russian Blue cat, Thomas, sits looking at it. Terence Cuneo comes into shot and turfs the cat off his stool, the