Cockney Party (1960)

C/U of some fruit, flowers and a stuffed bird on a hat on someone’s head; M/S of two ladies wearing similar hats, talking and eating at a party in Blackheath, London. M/S of Jimmy Hanley (in waistcoat, granddad shirt, bowler hat, moustache and glasses) standing at the buffet table with a Beefeater; JH lifts a long eel from a plate; C/U of various dishes of food on the table; “cockles and mussels - an’ all that caper!“ says the commentator. M/S of people standing at a table to get food while an old man eats cockles (I think); C/U of JH eating an eel, peeling off half of his moustache to take a bigger bite, then replacing it. C/Us of JH’s hands getting a winkle out of a shell, then eating it. M/S showing lots of prepared party food on a table; “personally prepared by a couple who put the ’vive’ in Bon Viveur, Fanny and John Cradock, for a cockney party at their home to celebrate their new book ’Something’s Burning’“, says the commentator. M/S of a waiter lighting candles; C/U as he arranges cutlery on