Animal Beautician (1960)

C/U of a white poodle enjoying having its hair and ears combed with it’s tongue hanging out. M/S as we see Valerie Phillips in Southport, Lancashire grooming the dog on a table on a lawn; she sets the dog down on the grass and it runs off as another lady enters shot with a larger dog on a lead, a creamy-coloured Pyrenean mountain dog called Carlos. Commentator tells us Valerie “has her own kennels and a cattery housing over 90 animals, tackles anything from a shampoo and set to a fashionable colour rinse“. VP lifts the dog into a bath on the ground then M/Ss and C/Us as we see Carlos “being treated to the colour of the season - which happens to be Nasturtium“; VP brushes a ginger coloured liquid dye onto the poor dog! Cut to M/S as VP leads the finished ginger Carlos to the table and he jumps onto it; she combs his face fur. M/Ss of a scooter outside a bungalow; VP comes out through the garden gate and gets onto the bike; starts it up and drives off; we see her driving along the road. M/S of the t