My Lady’s Hat (1960)

’Throwing the Hood’ annual race at Haxey, Lincolnshire. C/U of a hat decorated with flowers, bells and bits of old jewellery held in the fool’s hands (the fool is Brian Tims). Tilt up to show him putting the hat on his head. M/S of BT walking past a stable swinging a ball attached to a stick by a rope. He is wearing rather strange clothes: a red jacket tied at the waist with a piece of ribbon and some trousers with a fringe down the side, American Indian style. M/S of an older man, Percy Hill, coming out of his cottage in a red jacket and putting on a flowery hat as he comes through his garden gate. C/U as he walks along. M/S of the door to a house opening and ’The Lord of the Hood’, Mr Cooper, comes out wearing his magnificent hat covered with flowers, feathers, tinsel and jewellery. His wife brushes down his red jacket before he leaves. M/S as he leaves the house and a small boy (also wearing a flowered hat) takes his hand and walks off down the street with him. M/S of Mr C and the boy walk