Pinto Collection Aka Pinto Antique Collection (1958)

Oxhey, Middlesex. M/S of a black and white Bull Terrier on the lawn in a garden. Mrs Eva Pinto enters the shot with a pair of oak tongs which she puts around the dog’s middle and guides it off up the steps. M/S of her guiding the dog up the steps. The narrator says the tongs were used in 18th Century Wales to remove noisy sheep dogs from Church on Sundays and they are part of a collection of ’wooden bygones’ that the couple have accumulated. M/S of Mr Edward Pinto in the garden with the house behind him. He is holding a silver topped cane and a wooden walking stick. He is joined by his wife Eva who is still holding the oak tongs. C/U of them both looking at the cane. He takes the top off, unscrews the silver part and pulls it up and over to look through the end. It is really a Scottish bird watching stick from 1885. His wife takes it from him and looks through it. C/U of the other walking stick and Edward’s hands attaching a blade from the hook to the bottom of the stick to make a saw,