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-Excuse me, could you tell me the way to Nutbourne College? -You must be the new English master! -Yes. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:03 | |
-Richard Tassell. -My name's Billings. I teach Maths. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
The carriage should be without. Hello, Rainbow, old scout! | 0:02:07 | 0:02:11 | |
-Aye, aye, sir. -How was Mon Repos, Southsea? -Middling, sir. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
-This is Mr Tassell, the new English master. -Pleased to meet you. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:18 | |
Keep on the right side of Rainbow. He runs the school and knows the country. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
Black-market whisky, butter, eggs, anything at a price, right, Rainbow? | 0:02:21 | 0:02:25 | |
Times are difficult, sir. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
-Is this your first appointment? -Yes. -Ex-service? -Army. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
Pond interviewed you, I suppose. What did you make of him? | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
-He seemed quite pleasant. -He's bats. You're going to loathe it here. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
That's a fine way of introducing me to it(!) | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
Oh, I see you've been putting in a spot of work on the garden for a change, Rainbow. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:57 | |
It's Mr Pond, sir. He's been on at me and Edwin all the week. "Clean this up. Paint that." | 0:02:57 | 0:03:02 | |
-Hasn't given us a moment. -Must be expecting a gaggle of parents. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:06 | |
There are six cottages in the village, a pub and a post office. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:10 | |
We are now entering the main hall of the noble pile. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
According to history, it goes back to Henry VIII. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
According to the bank, it goes back to THEM, | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
unless Pond keeps up with his payments. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
-Fine old staircase... -Mmm. -..but you have to climb it 20 times a day. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:27 | |
And this is the common room. Haven from howling kids and the back parlour of our domestic life. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:34 | |
You'll find your evenings here rollicking(!) | 0:03:34 | 0:03:37 | |
Matthews - he's the second master - plays a good hand of ecarte. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
-Joue here suffers from insomnia. -JOUE SNORES | 0:03:40 | 0:03:44 | |
Takes French and he plays backgammon...when he's awake. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
-I'll introduce you to him later. -What about you? What do you do? | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
Football pools. I once won 30 bob. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:53 | |
-It's led me astray ever since. -HORN PLAYS A TUNE | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
-What's that? -Hyde-Brown. Known to the natives as Whizzo. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
He's the sports master. He's the only chap who isn't really affected by this place. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
Oh, I'm sorry if I'm painting a gloomy picture. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
Oh, hello, Ramsden. This is Tassell, the new English master. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
How do you do? | 0:04:10 | 0:04:12 | |
How do you do? | 0:04:12 | 0:04:14 | |
He's the science master. We call him the Ghost of Nutbourne. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
Ha! How are you, Billings, you jaundiced swine? | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
Oh, had the devil of a journey. Thought I'd never make it. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:25 | |
Nearly ran out of juice. Must get old Rainbow to get me some more petrol coupons. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
Hello? Hello. That you, Joan, dear? | 0:04:29 | 0:04:33 | |
Look, get me Ashfield 69. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:35 | |
-I'm not going to pay what he asked last term - seven bob a gallon. -This is Tassell, the new Englisher. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:40 | |
-Victor Hyde-Brown. -Oh, how are you, old boy? ..Hello? | 0:04:40 | 0:04:43 | |
Hello? That you, Alf? Vic here. Look, what won the 4.30? ..Oh. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:47 | |
What was second and third? ..Oh. Did...Winter Cottage run? | 0:04:47 | 0:04:51 | |
-Oh, thanks. ..Just my luck. -I say, Tassell, you can have this cupboard. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:57 | |
What's that ass Pond been up to? | 0:04:57 | 0:04:58 | |
This place hasn't had a coat of paint since they took photographs for the prospectus. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:03 | |
I say, you chaps, take a butcher's at these. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:05 | |
This is a little job I ran across in a joint in Montmartre. She comes from Birkenhead. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:09 | |
The one with the advanced ideas - that's Jeanne. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
-Won't you ever grow up? -I hope not. That's Yvette. What a scorcher. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
-It's l'amour, old man. -You'll gather Brownie is interested in a wide variety of sports(!) | 0:05:15 | 0:05:20 | |
-There you are, Billings. I expected you earlier. -You're not going to run through the Second XV fixtures | 0:05:20 | 0:05:25 | |
-or anything of that sort? What is it? -I put a notice on the board. Mr Tassell, I take it? | 0:05:25 | 0:05:30 | |
-How do you do? -How do you do? -I'm Matthews, the second master. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
-You'll find us a very happy family here. -Since when?! What is it on the board, Matty. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
-Really, it's only three yards. Mr Pond wants to go to tea today. -Tea?! | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
-That's the first time. What's the idea? -I haven't the remotest notion. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:45 | |
It's about 5.30 and I saw Mrs Hampstead going in with the tea about two minutes ago. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:49 | |
We have no alternative but to investigate this strange phenomenon. Let's go. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:53 | |
-Oh, do you want...wary Willy? -Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear! | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
And before term's started. Monsieur Joue. Wake up, Monsieur Joue. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
-Wake up! -J'aurai, tu auras, il aura... | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
He hasn't had Rainbow and Edwin working for nothing. If Pond's dishing out a free bun fight, | 0:06:04 | 0:06:09 | |
-there's something brewing apart from tea. -Maybe he's getting married and wants to impress the lady. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:14 | |
The day Pond exchanges a smile with a woman, I'll dance the hornpipe naked on the village green. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:19 | |
-And as for anything in this dump impressing anyone... -HE KNOCKS | 0:06:19 | 0:06:24 | |
Come in, gentlemen, please. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:25 | |
POND LAUGHS | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
Excuse me. Tea is served. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
POND CHUCKLES | 0:06:29 | 0:06:33 | |
Mr Tassell. Welcome to Nutbourne. Delighted to have you join us. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:39 | |
My colleagues, I'm sure, will tell you all you need to know about the school. Right, Billings? | 0:06:39 | 0:06:45 | |
Sit down, gentlemen, sit down. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
Lend me a hand with the tea, will you, Billings, please? | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
Well, I hope you all enjoyed your vacations. Come in Matthews, Joue. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:55 | |
Here we are all once again back in harness. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
And I, for one, can say that I'm...I'm not sorry. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
Sit down, Ramsden. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:03 | |
Yes, it's 15 years almost to the day since I first... ..Don't forget the sugar, Billings. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:08 | |
15 years since I came here. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:11 | |
And I must say it's 15 years that I shall look back on with a very deepest affection. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:16 | |
There'll be many more to look back upon before you and Nutbourne part company, sir. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:21 | |
I appreciate that sentiment, Matthews. | 0:07:21 | 0:07:23 | |
But I'm afraid it's a...a pleasure that may not be granted to me. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
-Oh, come, sir! -Ha-ha, yes! -Are these crumpets? -I don't know(!) | 0:07:26 | 0:07:30 | |
As a matter of fact, that is why I've asked you all to come here. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
There is a distinct possibility that I may be translated to a higher sphere. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:38 | |
Not your heart again, sir? | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
My heart is perfectly all right, Billings. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
-No, I've been urged to consider an appointment elsewhere. -No, sir! | 0:07:42 | 0:07:46 | |
-Yes, the headmastership of Harlingham. -But that's a decent school. One of the majors. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:50 | |
This is a shock. I hardly dare think what would happen to Nutbourne if you left. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:55 | |
It would be a tremendous wrench for me, too, Matthews. Oh! Crumpets it is. | 0:07:55 | 0:08:00 | |
Plates, Billings. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:01 | |
But, Matthews, that the call of duty comes before even that of affection. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:05 | |
And the call of duty would be stronger at Harlingham, sir? | 0:08:05 | 0:08:09 | |
I have always felt that the highest aim of a teacher | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
is to sow the seeds of knowledge of ever wider, more fertile fields. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:16 | |
We're a comparatively small school here | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
and, judging from recent examination results, not abundantly fertile. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:24 | |
Give Joue his tea, will you, Billings, please? | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
Which brings me to my second point. The governors of Harlingham | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
-will shortly be visiting here to study my methods. -Then you haven't cornered the job yet, sir?! | 0:08:31 | 0:08:36 | |
The problem is a mutual one, Billings. Will Harlingham suit me? | 0:08:36 | 0:08:41 | |
-Will I be equal to Harlingham? -Mmm, crumpets are nice, sir. -Thank you, Matthews. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:46 | |
I'm sure with your co-operation and perhaps a little...a little extra effort, | 0:08:46 | 0:08:50 | |
we can show the governors of Harlingham that our school is every bit as good as... Ramsden. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:55 | |
Will you please sit down? | 0:08:55 | 0:08:57 | |
Oh, and bearing this in mind, | 0:08:58 | 0:09:00 | |
Mr Joue, do you think you might contrive to spend a little more of the day with us? | 0:09:00 | 0:09:05 | |
Thank you, Joue. And you, Billings... | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
Billings, do you think you could devote a little more of your time to obtaining class results | 0:09:08 | 0:09:13 | |
and a little less to trying to forecast the football variety, hmm?! | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
Good. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:18 | |
And talking of football, Hyde-Brown, I seem to recall that last year, | 0:09:18 | 0:09:23 | |
our first XV lost 11 out of the 12 matches. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
-POND CHUCKLES -Might I suggest in your case a little more of the coach, | 0:09:25 | 0:09:30 | |
a little less of the Coach and Horses? | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
-Oh, I say, that's a bit of a reflection, isn't it, sir? -Come, come, come! | 0:09:32 | 0:09:36 | |
You mustn't think, gentlemen, that I make these comments in a spirit of carping criticism. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:41 | |
-DOOR OPENS -On the contrary. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
Begging pardon, sir, | 0:09:44 | 0:09:46 | |
would you mind telling me how many new boys there is this term? | 0:09:46 | 0:09:48 | |
Rainbow, you know better than to interrupt my conferences! | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
I gave you a note this morning. We're expecting TWO. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:54 | |
You may be expecting two, sir. You're going to get 102! | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
See Mr Matthews about it later and go away now, please! ..I'm sorry. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
"217 trunks, 217 tuck boxes", it says here. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:07 | |
"Invoice 7348", er... "British Railways". | 0:10:07 | 0:10:12 | |
I'm not in the least concerned about what the British Railways think it is. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:16 | |
It's a mistake. Take it away and forget about it! | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
You can't hardly forget 217 trunks and tuck boxes, sir. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
This is worse than teaching algebra to the remove. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
It's only on paper, man. On paper! | 0:10:25 | 0:10:27 | |
-Take a look at the drive, sir. -Drive?! | 0:10:27 | 0:10:30 | |
-217 trunks and tuck boxes! -Uh! | 0:10:30 | 0:10:34 | |
217?! Good gracious! | 0:10:36 | 0:10:39 | |
And all correct too, sir. I counted 'em. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
This is what comes of nationalising the railways. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 | |
The fellows don't know their LMS from their Southern Region. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
Instead of the ordinary muddle, we've complete chaos. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
You and Edwin will have to send those trunks that don't belong to us back to the station. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:59 | |
-How do I know which don't belong? -Check the register. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
If there's any clash about names, you can tell by the initials. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
Here we have a D Johnson. Now, we have an A Johnson, but no... | 0:11:05 | 0:11:09 | |
But this is addressed to "St Swithin's, | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
-"Nutbourne College, Nutbourne, Hants". -There's another St Swithin's here, sir. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:15 | |
I suppose this isn't some fourth-form prank? | 0:11:15 | 0:11:19 | |
I don't offer this as a solution, sir, but a letter came this morning | 0:11:19 | 0:11:23 | |
addressed to the Secretary of St Swithin's. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:25 | |
-What did you do with it? -I marked it "unknown", returned it to the Ministry. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:29 | |
-The Ministry?! The Ministry wrote to St Swithin's HERE? -Yes, sir. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:34 | |
And you didn't open it? Oh, no, of course not. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:36 | |
-Excuse me, sir, but I may be able to offer a helping hand here, sir. -Oh? | 0:11:36 | 0:11:41 | |
You know the postman's supposed to clear the box in the hall at midday? | 0:11:41 | 0:11:45 | |
-Yes, well? -Well, as a result of an arrangement between him and me, | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
I've been in the habit of taking the post to the village for him. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:51 | |
-And today you haven't? -Not yet, but, er...I've got the key, sir. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:56 | |
I see. Then the GPO don't receive the letters | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
-until you hand them over in the village post office. -Er...pub, sir. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
That poses a pretty problem as to when exactly the letters | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
-become the property of the Post Office. -It's not a problem I intend to go into too deeply. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:10 | |
"The attached form E.43 should also be signed by a responsible representative | 0:12:10 | 0:12:14 | |
"of the school whose premises are being shared." | 0:12:14 | 0:12:16 | |
"Whose premises are being shared"?! | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
What on earth could have happened? "Name of school to be re-evacuated..." | 0:12:18 | 0:12:22 | |
Re-evacuated?! What on earth's re-evacuated?! | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
-Someone's written against it "St Swithin's". -That's them. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
-"Destination Nutbourne College, Hants." -Us. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
-"Date of arrival, 17th September..." -Today. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
But it can't! I mean, it can't! | 0:12:34 | 0:12:36 | |
I'll get on to this Government department at once. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:39 | |
Whitehall 1312, please. ..If anyone should send a school here without first consulting me - | 0:12:39 | 0:12:44 | |
-it's outside the bounds of possibility. -Shall I stop Rainbow | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
-taking that luggage to the station? -Certainly not. If the... | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
Hello, I want to speak to the Schools Resettlement Department, please. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:56 | |
I beg your pardon? But there must be somebody there. | 0:12:56 | 0:12:59 | |
Put me on to somebody somewhere else. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
Nobody?! | 0:13:02 | 0:13:05 | |
It's fantastic(!) | 0:13:08 | 0:13:10 | |
It's absolutely fantastic(!) | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
They've closed the office and gone home. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
So, at any moment, we may expect 100 extra boys. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
Well, I must talk to Mrs Hampstead at once. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:22 | |
100 extra boys. With staff, I presume. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:25 | |
Not even a postcard to let us know they're coming. | 0:13:25 | 0:13:28 | |
Nothing we can do about it until I talk to someone in the morning. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:32 | |
We've barely enough space for our own boys. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:34 | |
-You rang, sir. -I did. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:36 | |
-Mrs Hampstead, you will prepare to receive 217 boys. -Pardon? | 0:13:36 | 0:13:41 | |
117 of our boys and 100 from another school. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
-I see. -The...the other school will remain for one night only. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:49 | |
Now, let me get this clear, sir. I'm to expect 217 boys tonight? | 0:13:51 | 0:13:56 | |
-That's right. There's only one way to deal with a crisis like this. First... -What are they going to eat? | 0:13:56 | 0:14:01 | |
Mmm? Well, they'll have what we have, of course. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
-Well, if they have it, we won't. -Do you mind if we deal with first things first? | 0:14:03 | 0:14:08 | |
With small boys - that comes first. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:10 | |
Where are they going to sleep? There's no room in the dormitories, | 0:14:10 | 0:14:13 | |
so...we'll have to find somewhere else. At Harlingham, | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
I'll be dealing with far greater numbers of boys. This might prove a blessing. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:21 | |
-That's one way of looking at it! -Yes! ..Well, I propose we make a tour of the school. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:25 | |
With a little application, we can settle the whole problem. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:28 | |
-Shall I get Rainbow to unload those trunks? -Oh, yes. I'd forgotten all about them. Come along, everybody. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:33 | |
Oh, Matthews, as to bedding, we've all those straw palliasses we used in summer camp. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:38 | |
-I'll have Rainbow get 'em out. -Sir, while you're running around, | 0:14:38 | 0:14:42 | |
I'll slip down and break the good news to cook. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
Mrs Hampstead, we are faced with an emergency. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:47 | |
-I expect the staff to rise to it. -They'll rise all right(!) -Good. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:50 | |
Phew! I don't know how it's ever going to get as far as the station. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:55 | |
No! How long did it take you to load that lot? | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
-Oh, 25 minutes. -Well, you've got a chance to beat it. You've got to unload it again. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:03 | |
-Huh? -St Swithin's is coming to stay for the night. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:05 | |
-You're not speaking in earnest? -That's the strength of it, sorry. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:09 | |
Phew! | 0:15:09 | 0:15:10 | |
Somebody must have gone barmy. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
100 bloomin' extra kids first day of term! | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
Your turn to do the shoes. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
-The staff sleeping problem presents some difficulties. Whose room is this? -Hyde-Brown's and mine. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:28 | |
Pleasant little room. Now, let's see, | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
do you think we might put two more beds in here, hmm? Any difficulties? | 0:15:32 | 0:15:36 | |
None, except how to get into bed. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
You're not adopting a very helpful attitude, Billings. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:42 | |
We're obliged to offer the school our hospitality. I suggest we do it with grace. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:46 | |
It's not too much to ask you to share your rooms with the staff. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
We won't find suitable accommodation for their headmaster. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
If you are looking to me to give you a lead, Billings, I must say that I should be only too glad | 0:15:52 | 0:15:57 | |
to share my room with my opposite number in St Swithin's. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
As I expected - an ancient mausoleum. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:09 | |
Topping grounds for the Guides and Brownies to muster in. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
-The mustering of the Guides and Brownies is not our only activity, Miss Gossage. -No. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:17 | |
If there are any dorms facings south, Miss Jezzard, see that our girls get them. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:21 | |
The infant animal needs space to breathe and blow. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
-We could settle the whole thing quickly by sleeping the kids two in a bed. -End to end. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:29 | |
We've the parents to consider. We must appear to give them value for their money. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:34 | |
-No, I'm afraid we must seek other fields for St Swithin's. -That's a thought. -Mmm? | 0:16:34 | 0:16:38 | |
Fields, sir. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
I'm quite sure, Hyde-Brown, your ready wit must make you exceedingly popular in the fourth form. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:46 | |
Heavenly place. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:51 | |
I never heard of anything like it! | 0:16:52 | 0:16:54 | |
Mr Pond may think he's obliging someone, but he's not obliging US. We're not slaves. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:59 | |
Nobody said you were. BELL RINGS | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
-The front door bell's ringing, Milly. -Oh, let it ring. I shall speak to Mr Hyde-Brown about this. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:06 | |
Evidently not on their toes. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
We'll try our luck inside. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:10 | |
Well, a tap on that gong should bring them from their burrows. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:20 | |
Yes, Miss Whitchurch. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
LOUD BONGS | 0:17:23 | 0:17:25 | |
A tap, Gossage. I said a tap. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:28 | |
You're not introducing a film. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:29 | |
We're not getting on very fast, gentlemen. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
-There are still 60 boys to accommodate. -GONG SOUNDS | 0:17:32 | 0:17:36 | |
Matthews, find out who's ringing that gong. If it's one of the boys, give him 100 lines. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:41 | |
There must be somewhere else. Uh... | 0:17:41 | 0:17:43 | |
The attic. | 0:17:43 | 0:17:45 | |
We can't bumble around here all day. ..What's in there? | 0:17:45 | 0:17:49 | |
It's another sort of hall, Miss Whitchurch. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:53 | |
I seem to detect an odour of last term's cottage pie. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:02 | |
A-hem. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:17 | |
Yes, well, when Rainbow has cleaned all this up, there ought to be room here for about, ooh, 60 boys. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:24 | |
-What about air, sir? -Air?! Oof! Let me see now. Well, if we open this skylight... | 0:18:24 | 0:18:29 | |
Mmm! Well, I dare say it will open. And keep the hatch wide, there ought to be a nice through draught. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:35 | |
I'm wondering more and more what's in store for us, Gossage. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:38 | |
It's a perfectly ghoulish atmosphere. The sunlight seems quite out of place. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:42 | |
No polish on the stairs or banisters, and dust everywhere! | 0:18:45 | 0:18:49 | |
Whatever else they teach here, it certainly isn't housecraft. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:53 | |
Are you in the habit of writing your name all over the place, Gossage? | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
-No, Miss Whitchurch. -Then kindly stop doing it at once. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:05 | |
SHE KNOCKS | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
Well, the mistresses' common room, I assume. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:15 | |
Huh. Cold comfort farm by all appearances! | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
And billiards! | 0:19:19 | 0:19:21 | |
How very strange. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:25 | |
No tips. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:28 | |
Huntin', shootin' and fishin', it seems. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
"Wetherby Pond, 1939". | 0:19:32 | 0:19:35 | |
But no mention of who caught it. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
Probably bought at auction. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
Boxing! | 0:19:40 | 0:19:42 | |
-Self-defence, I suppose. -Well, doesn't surprise me | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
after reading the school motto. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:47 | |
-No. -Heavy smokers, too. No signs of lipstick. That's astonishing. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:53 | |
Cards?! | 0:19:53 | 0:19:54 | |
The Racehorse?! | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
Gaming, nicotine, fisticuffs - | 0:19:57 | 0:19:59 | |
we're moving in a descending spiral of iniquity! | 0:19:59 | 0:20:03 | |
Ah! A woman's bookshelf is an infallible guide to her character. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:08 | |
Oxford English Dictionary, | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
Dictionary Of Phrase And Fable, | 0:20:10 | 0:20:12 | |
The Diary Of Samuel Pepys - abridged. Well, that's something to be thankful for(!) | 0:20:12 | 0:20:17 | |
What's up here? A-hem. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
Memoirs Of Casanova. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
-Wasn't that the book we caught Jessica James reading in the closet? -Yes. -Yes. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:29 | |
Decameron Nights. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
Well, really! | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
Whatever else this establishment may or may not be, | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
-it's clearly not a suitable place to bring carefully nurtured girls to. -I should jolly well say not. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:41 | |
-But what can we do about it? -We must tell the Ministry. They got us into it. They must get us out of it. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:46 | |
Well, that settles the sleeping question. Now, it's the meals. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:51 | |
-Cook will simply have to stagger them. -That shouldn't be difficult(!) -Of course not. Come along. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:55 | |
Rainbow can bring down the table from the carpenter's shop. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
What's this? "Gossage"? | 0:21:03 | 0:21:05 | |
Mmm? Some of the boys starting to arrive? Give the boy who wrote his name there 50 lines. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:10 | |
-"Gossage"? I don't know any Gossages. -Maybe it's a St Swithin's kid. -Then give him 50 lines. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:15 | |
I'll not have their boys writing their names all over our dust... | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
Who's that? | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
-Er, little girl. -Yes? | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
Who... Who are you? I mean, what do you want? This is Nutbourne College. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:31 | |
That's right. I just biked on ahead with Miss Harper's things. She's with the crocodile. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:36 | |
Crocodile?! What on earth's she talking about? Who... Who's Miss Harper? | 0:21:36 | 0:21:41 | |
Miss Harper? Well, she's English and history and jolly dee! | 0:21:41 | 0:21:44 | |
In fact, she's the only decent mistress in St Swithin's. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:47 | |
St Swithin's?! You don't mean to say | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
-that yours is a school of boys AND girls? -Oh, no! | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
Only girls. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
Does this mean, sir, that we are to expect 100 young ladies? | 0:21:55 | 0:22:00 | |
It means not only have the Ministry made a mistake in sending a school here at all, | 0:22:01 | 0:22:05 | |
but they've apparently been guilty of an appalling sexual aberration. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:09 | |
I shall ask for the home number of the man responsible. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
If they refuse, I shall speak to the Minister himself. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
Do you know what this means, old boy? Popsies, scores of them. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
There are only two types of school mistress - | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
the battle-axe and the Amazon. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:25 | |
I bet you five bob they fall into one class or another. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:28 | |
The condition of the place is indescribable. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
Dust and dirt everywhere. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
And the staff seem to match their surroundings. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:37 | |
I've seen quite enough to know it's no place to bring well-brought-up girls to... | 0:22:37 | 0:22:42 | |
I agree with that last statement. Will you kindly remove yourself from my chair, my telephone... | 0:22:42 | 0:22:47 | |
-Sorry, I didn't catch what you said... -Will you kindly move yourself from my telephone?! | 0:22:47 | 0:22:51 | |
Will you please refrain from interfering? | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
I don't know who you are, but I'm in the middle of a conversation with the Ministry. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:58 | |
-Ministry?! -Hello? -Give me that! -Will you desist at once, sir?! | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
-You leave me no alternative. -How dare you, sir? | 0:23:01 | 0:23:04 | |
How dare YOU, madam?! | 0:23:04 | 0:23:05 | |
Hello, hello. This is Wetherby Pond speaking, | 0:23:05 | 0:23:09 | |
the headmaster of Nutbourne College. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
I don't know how much you know about what's going on here, | 0:23:11 | 0:23:13 | |
but I find it difficult to speak temperedly about it. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
I will not have a girls' school on my premises, not for a single day, not for a single hour, not... | 0:23:15 | 0:23:21 | |
I don't want your sympathy, man. I want action. I want these women removed bag and baggage. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:26 | |
If the last train is gone, you must lay on a special. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:28 | |
I'm not putting down this telephone until I know what you're going to do about it. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:32 | |
Have I made myself clear? | 0:23:32 | 0:23:33 | |
Oh, yeah, I understand. But I think you'd better have a word with the guv'nor when he comes back. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:38 | |
-Where is he? -Eh? I think he's stoking the boilers. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
To whom am I talking? | 0:23:42 | 0:23:45 | |
Thank you. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
You were speaking to the junior assistant caretaker. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:54 | |
The Ministry is closed! | 0:23:54 | 0:23:56 | |
I take it you are some sort of official in this girls' school. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
I don't like your tone, my man. I'll answer you when you're in possession of yourself. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:06 | |
Madam, I'm well able to control myself. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
Unaccustomed as I am to having girls' schools thrust upon me, no doubt, in years to come, | 0:24:09 | 0:24:13 | |
I shall look upon this as amusing. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:15 | |
-But I shan't. -The only solution is to send your girls back home until the whole position is rectified. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:21 | |
Out of the question. At least 50 of my girls come from the colonies. St Swithin's specialises in outposts. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:27 | |
I'm not at all concerned where they come from! It is impossible for them to remain here. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:31 | |
It is equally impossible for them to go elsewhere. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:35 | |
At any moment now, they'll be arriving, | 0:24:35 | 0:24:37 | |
hot and tired from their journey, bursting for a hot bath | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
and peckish for their high tea. By the way, a-hem, | 0:24:40 | 0:24:43 | |
my name is Whitchurch. I am Principal of St Swithin's. | 0:24:43 | 0:24:48 | |
Oh... | 0:24:48 | 0:24:50 | |
How do you...? How do you do? | 0:24:50 | 0:24:52 | |
What's more, I make it a rule that junior school go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire at 6.30 sharp | 0:24:52 | 0:24:58 | |
with their milk and biscuits - digestive. Have you digestive? | 0:24:58 | 0:25:02 | |
I don't know. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
But if there are any, they'll be eaten by my boys. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:06 | |
Oh, come now, it's no use playing dog in the manger. Let us face this squarely. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:10 | |
-Which day do your boys arrive? -Today at 6.15, | 0:25:10 | 0:25:14 | |
hot, tired and peckish for their high tea. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:17 | |
Yes, I see your problem. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:20 | |
-I'm grateful for that. -We must don our thinking caps. -Madam, I'm not donning anything. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:26 | |
Oh! | 0:25:26 | 0:25:27 | |
We've just been hurled out of our common room... | 0:25:27 | 0:25:30 | |
-By a bunch of ruffians. -One pulled me out of my chair. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
-Miss Whitchurch, you realise where we are? -You don't imagine I've been here indulging in social chit-chat. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:39 | |
Mr Pond, permit me to introduce my staff. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:41 | |
No, no, no, no, no. I don't want to appear rude, | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
but there's no point in meeting them since they're not going to remain here. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:48 | |
Look, madam, I am surprised that you should ignore the domestic absurdity | 0:25:48 | 0:25:52 | |
of bringing 100 girls here. There are feeding problems, | 0:25:52 | 0:25:56 | |
-servant problems... -There's no problem there, sir. They're leaving. | 0:25:56 | 0:26:00 | |
-OUTSIDE: -Left, right. Left, right. Left... | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
Oh, good egg! Here's comes our croc! | 0:26:02 | 0:26:04 | |
And there goes OURS. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:11 | |
Three years it's taken me to get a good kitchen staff. What am I to do? | 0:26:16 | 0:26:20 | |
-That's childishly simple. You forget you have a girls' school with you. -Forget(!) | 0:26:20 | 0:26:25 | |
It will provide an absolutely superb opportunity for my advanced cookery girls to show their paces. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:31 | |
No, madam, not that. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:33 | |
Not that! That's more than flesh and blood can stand. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:36 | |
I'll go through purgatory with you, but hell - no! Hell, no! | 0:26:36 | 0:26:40 | |
I owe you a dollar. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:42 | |
-Thanks. -We're in for a whale of a time. | 0:26:43 | 0:26:47 | |
-Morris dancing in the gym, eurhythmics on the lawn... -Queues for the bathroom, | 0:26:47 | 0:26:51 | |
no smoking anywhere and compulsory cocoa at 11. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:53 | |
I'm for a couple of voluntary pints at the Coach and Horses before they arrive. Any takers? | 0:26:53 | 0:26:59 | |
I'll gladly stand anyone a pint if they'll care to join me. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:03 | |
I'm a lifelong teetotaller, but I'm almost inclined to accept Brown's invitation. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:08 | |
I'm GOING to. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:10 | |
Is this right? | 0:27:14 | 0:27:16 | |
Yes, it's right. Press on. Straight ahead. Let me... | 0:27:16 | 0:27:19 | |
This has cost me five bob. | 0:27:22 | 0:27:24 | |
-Yes, cheap at the price. -Good afternoon. -Good afternoon. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:28 | |
-Oh. -Oh, I'm sorry. -That's quite all right. Allow me. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
Thank you. | 0:27:31 | 0:27:33 | |
-I'm Richard Tassell. I teach English here. -So do I, but... -We'll have something in common! | 0:27:38 | 0:27:43 | |
I'm Victor Hyde-Brown, sports master here. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:45 | |
-Won't you sit down, Miss...? -Harper. -..Harper. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:48 | |
-The rot's setting in. -Cigarette? -Thank you. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:52 | |
I never expected anything like this. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:54 | |
-How many mistresses have you? -Well, I, er... | 0:27:54 | 0:27:58 | |
DOOR OPENS | 0:27:58 | 0:27:59 | |
I must talk to you, gentlemen. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:01 | |
-We're in an unprecedented predicament. -Miss Harper - Mr Pond. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:05 | |
-How do you do? -How do you do? Your colleagues are in the first door on the right. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:10 | |
-May I leave my things here? -Yes, of course. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:14 | |
-Who is he? -I'll explain later. -Hyde-Brown, will you please close that door? | 0:28:16 | 0:28:21 | |
Thank you. Now, gentlemen, we are faced with an appalling dilemma. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:26 | |
We have a wooden horse in our midst. | 0:28:26 | 0:28:29 | |
Possession is nine points of the law. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:31 | |
Our girls are in the hall, their boys haven't arrived. Come in, Miss Harper. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:35 | |
-Did you pass a long, bald-headed person? -You mean Pond? He's in the common room. -Excellent. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:40 | |
We'll find out where their dormitories are and take our girls there. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:43 | |
Ladies, you're facing your supreme test. | 0:28:43 | 0:28:46 | |
-Remember our netball cry. -Effort, St Swithin's, effort! -Quite so, Miss Gossage. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:51 | |
If trespassers threaten your property, you build fences. Hmm? | 0:28:51 | 0:28:54 | |
-I propose we lock the dormitories. -Hear, hear! | 0:28:54 | 0:28:57 | |
But we must act before that female spawns her young all over the building. | 0:28:57 | 0:29:01 | |
Billings, take the fourth-form dormitory, and Hyde-Brown, the fifth. | 0:29:01 | 0:29:05 | |
And Matthews and Joue, the third and the sixth. | 0:29:05 | 0:29:08 | |
-Have you got a key to the common room, sir? -We don't have to lock this room, Billings? | 0:29:08 | 0:29:12 | |
No, and we can't UNLOCK it unless you've got a key. | 0:29:12 | 0:29:15 | |
-Is this a practical joke? -The key's on the outside. | 0:29:19 | 0:29:23 | |
This is the last straw. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:25 | |
Come along now. Hurry up! We've got plenty to do. | 0:29:25 | 0:29:28 | |
Stand by, Tennyson, Longfellow. | 0:29:28 | 0:29:30 | |
Miss Armstrong, as quick as you can. No time to lose. | 0:29:30 | 0:29:33 | |
-The honour of Nutbourne is at stake. -All right. I'll have a go, | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
but it's not much use unlocking the stable door after the horses have got there first. | 0:29:38 | 0:29:43 | |
-What's happening up there? -Hey, look out, sir! | 0:29:43 | 0:29:46 | |
-Gosh, it's old Whizzo! -Hey, Whizzo! | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
That's it, Hyde-Brown. That's it. Press on. | 0:29:54 | 0:29:56 | |
BOYS CHEER AND WHISTLE | 0:29:56 | 0:30:01 | |
That's it. You're almost there. | 0:30:01 | 0:30:03 | |
You're doing splendidly, Hyde-Brown. | 0:30:03 | 0:30:06 | |
BOYS CHEER AND WHISTLE | 0:30:06 | 0:30:09 | |
Don't look down! | 0:30:11 | 0:30:13 | |
Carry on. ..Go in at once, you boys. Go straight upstairs | 0:30:17 | 0:30:20 | |
to your dormitories and stay there till I call you. | 0:30:20 | 0:30:23 | |
Any boy left hanging about will get 500 lines. | 0:30:23 | 0:30:26 | |
Now, then, one leap and you've done it. | 0:30:30 | 0:30:33 | |
Now, Tennyson and Longfellow, settle down as quickly as you can. | 0:30:33 | 0:30:36 | |
-I'll have their trunks sent up in a few minutes. -Very well. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:39 | |
Not in here, Miss Gossage. Follow me, Milton and Browning. Quick as you can. No dawdling. | 0:30:39 | 0:30:44 | |
I say, Talbot, there's girls in our dormitory. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:53 | |
-Girls?! Where?! -Hundreds of them. They're everywhere. -Have you gone potty? | 0:30:53 | 0:30:57 | |
-What are you talking about? -Go and see for yourself. They're all over the place. -He's right. There are. | 0:30:57 | 0:31:02 | |
-That's what I've been trying to tell them. -Let's see. | 0:31:02 | 0:31:05 | |
This way, Milton and Browning. | 0:31:09 | 0:31:11 | |
Come along, girls. Come along. | 0:31:11 | 0:31:13 | |
-I realise it's not quite what you're accustomed to. -GIRL SCREAMS | 0:31:13 | 0:31:17 | |
-What's that? -There's trouble already. -It's something in Tennyson. -Let's go and see at once. | 0:31:17 | 0:31:22 | |
-Oh! -SCREAMING | 0:31:24 | 0:31:26 | |
You must stop! You must stop! You must... | 0:31:45 | 0:31:48 | |
MISS WHITCHURCH WHISTLES | 0:31:52 | 0:31:53 | |
-Aren't you going to stop them, sir? -There are times, I think, | 0:32:02 | 0:32:06 | |
when little boys should be seen but not interrupted. Come. | 0:32:06 | 0:32:10 | |
COCK CROWS | 0:32:11 | 0:32:13 | |
BELL RINGS | 0:32:15 | 0:32:18 | |
BELL CONTINUES | 0:32:19 | 0:32:22 | |
-Where am I? -The French master's bed. | 0:32:26 | 0:32:30 | |
SNORING | 0:32:32 | 0:32:35 | |
BELL RINGS LOUDLY | 0:32:35 | 0:32:38 | |
BELL CONTINUES TO RING | 0:32:41 | 0:32:44 | |
Madam, I... | 0:34:07 | 0:34:09 | |
Really, this is too much. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:14 | |
I give up my bedroom to you, only to find my clothes flung all over the place. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:18 | |
Look, madam, where are my shirts and underwear? | 0:34:18 | 0:34:20 | |
In the filing cabinet. | 0:34:20 | 0:34:22 | |
It's no use telephoning the Ministry. There won't be anybody there before ten o'clock. | 0:34:24 | 0:34:29 | |
-It's rough and ready, Jezzard, but it'll serve. -Yes. | 0:34:29 | 0:34:33 | |
-Thank you. -There we are. Now we'd better see how they're faring in the kitchen. | 0:34:33 | 0:34:37 | |
Breakfast is at eight sharp, so don't loiter. | 0:34:39 | 0:34:42 | |
DOOR SLAMS | 0:34:42 | 0:34:44 | |
-Good morning, girls. -Morning, Miss Whitchurch. | 0:34:49 | 0:34:52 | |
-Everything shipshape and Bristol fashion? -Yes, Miss Whitchurch. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:56 | |
The fishcakes are ready, but there's a hold-up with the porridge. | 0:34:56 | 0:35:00 | |
-Why? -I had to throw one lot away. -Oh, that'll never do. | 0:35:00 | 0:35:03 | |
-Now, Angela, you've made porridge before. -Yes, but no-one had to eat it. | 0:35:03 | 0:35:08 | |
That's a defeatist attitude, my dear. Stir it well and don't shilly-shally. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:12 | |
Now, now, now, Mary! | 0:35:14 | 0:35:15 | |
You know better than to make tea in that haphazard fashion. | 0:35:15 | 0:35:18 | |
-How many people are you making it for? -233. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:22 | |
Then put in 233 teaspoonsful | 0:35:22 | 0:35:24 | |
and one... well, perhaps two for the pot. | 0:35:24 | 0:35:28 | |
One... | 0:35:30 | 0:35:31 | |
two... | 0:35:31 | 0:35:32 | |
-I understand your fishcakes are ready, Alice. -For the past 20 minutes. | 0:35:32 | 0:35:36 | |
I don't want any temperament, my dear. What did you put in them? | 0:35:36 | 0:35:40 | |
Or shouldn't I ask? | 0:35:40 | 0:35:41 | |
-Anyway, they smell delicious. -They've gone hard. | 0:35:42 | 0:35:46 | |
Never mind. I don't suppose hungry little tummies will notice that. | 0:35:46 | 0:35:50 | |
They will afterwards. | 0:35:51 | 0:35:53 | |
28... | 0:35:53 | 0:35:55 | |
29... | 0:35:55 | 0:35:56 | |
130... | 0:35:56 | 0:35:58 | |
These little adventures break the monotony of school life. | 0:35:58 | 0:36:01 | |
I love monotony. | 0:36:01 | 0:36:03 | |
Oh. | 0:36:03 | 0:36:04 | |
Morning, Mr Pond. | 0:36:05 | 0:36:06 | |
Oh. | 0:36:07 | 0:36:08 | |
I think I'll just have tea and toast today. | 0:36:08 | 0:36:10 | |
It's five past eight. | 0:36:10 | 0:36:13 | |
There's been a slight hiatus with the porridge. Shall we move in? | 0:36:13 | 0:36:17 | |
What form of grace do you say here? | 0:36:20 | 0:36:22 | |
Well, I usually ask that we should be grateful for what we're about to receive. | 0:36:22 | 0:36:27 | |
Please, sir, I don't want any more. | 0:36:38 | 0:36:41 | |
No, sir. | 0:36:41 | 0:36:42 | |
Oh, very well. | 0:36:44 | 0:36:46 | |
It's still Arkwright, but he's trying to put me on to a Mr Tripp. | 0:36:46 | 0:36:49 | |
Apparently Mr Bullock got the papers from Mr Forrester. | 0:36:49 | 0:36:53 | |
He passed them on to Mr Arkwright who passed them on to Mr Tripp. | 0:36:53 | 0:36:57 | |
We've got to sit here while they keep on passing around... | 0:36:58 | 0:37:03 | |
The girls must write home, Miss Gossage. Rely on their discretion. | 0:37:03 | 0:37:07 | |
The younger girls are the trouble, Miss Whitchurch. | 0:37:07 | 0:37:10 | |
Monica Redfern wrote, "Dear Mummy, I'm having an exciting time. | 0:37:10 | 0:37:13 | |
-"We've been sent to a boys' school by mistake." -That's a statement of fact. | 0:37:13 | 0:37:18 | |
"Everybody's having lots of fun. | 0:37:18 | 0:37:20 | |
-"The mistresses are sharing the masters' rooms." -Ah, yes. | 0:37:20 | 0:37:24 | |
I see what you mean. | 0:37:24 | 0:37:26 | |
Well, we must institute a system of censorship at once. | 0:37:26 | 0:37:29 | |
-Yes, Miss Whitchurch. -I advise you to take similar steps, Mr Pond. | 0:37:29 | 0:37:33 | |
We have a bond of trust here at Nutbourne, the boys and I, which is never abused. | 0:37:33 | 0:37:39 | |
-Yes, Billings? -I caught young Sutton posting this. | 0:37:39 | 0:37:42 | |
There's nothing against the boys sending parcels home. What is it? | 0:37:42 | 0:37:46 | |
A fishcake. And Sutton's father is an analytical chemist. | 0:37:46 | 0:37:50 | |
There's a note inside which reads, "Dear Dad, our breakfast. | 0:37:50 | 0:37:53 | |
"Get weaving. Reg." | 0:37:53 | 0:37:56 | |
THUD | 0:37:57 | 0:37:59 | |
Well, I suppose we all have black sheep. | 0:38:01 | 0:38:04 | |
Want me to skim through the rest of the flock? | 0:38:04 | 0:38:07 | |
Yes. I suggest you get together with this lady. | 0:38:07 | 0:38:11 | |
-Hello, is that Mr Tripp? -Mr Tripp! -It is? | 0:38:13 | 0:38:17 | |
-Good... -Mr Tripp? | 0:38:17 | 0:38:19 | |
Mr Pond. I take it Mr Arkwright has told you what Mr Bullock told him I told Mr Forrester? | 0:38:19 | 0:38:24 | |
Yes, I'm acquainted with the facts. I just can't think how it occurred. | 0:38:24 | 0:38:28 | |
..I wouldn't like to promise that. It'll take a little while. | 0:38:28 | 0:38:32 | |
You're not an approved school, by any chance? | 0:38:32 | 0:38:36 | |
I'll do everything I can to expedite matters. Good morning. | 0:38:36 | 0:38:40 | |
FANFARE | 0:38:52 | 0:38:55 | |
Will these little blighters never stop writing home? | 0:39:15 | 0:39:19 | |
I can't pass one in ten of these. | 0:39:19 | 0:39:21 | |
No, nor can I. | 0:39:21 | 0:39:23 | |
Still, you know, I do think it's been heaps of fun working together. | 0:39:23 | 0:39:28 | |
-It has, hasn't it? -Not my idea of fun, Miss Gossage. | 0:39:28 | 0:39:32 | |
Call me Sausage. | 0:39:34 | 0:39:35 | |
"That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet..." | 0:39:37 | 0:39:43 | |
Thank you, Betty. Does anyone know the Good Night passage? | 0:39:43 | 0:39:47 | |
-I do, Miss Harper. -Very well, Barbara. | 0:39:47 | 0:39:49 | |
Where shall I start, Miss Harper? | 0:39:49 | 0:39:51 | |
From "Well, do not swear." | 0:39:51 | 0:39:53 | |
-"Well, do not swear, although I..." -KNOCK ON DOOR | 0:39:53 | 0:39:58 | |
Oh, do you think I might borrow another duster, Miss Harper? | 0:39:58 | 0:40:02 | |
-I mislaid the last one. -That's the fifth in three days. | 0:40:02 | 0:40:06 | |
-As many as that? -The children will begin to misconstrue your intentions. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:10 | |
-Misconstrue? -One or two seem to be doing so already. | 0:40:10 | 0:40:14 | |
Barbara, don't stand staring, carry on. | 0:40:14 | 0:40:17 | |
"I have no joy of this contract tonight | 0:40:17 | 0:40:20 | |
"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden..." | 0:40:20 | 0:40:24 | |
"Too like the lightning which doth cease to be..." | 0:40:24 | 0:40:26 | |
"E'er one can say, 'It lightens' Sweet, good night | 0:40:26 | 0:40:31 | |
-"This bud of love... -"By summer's ripening breath | 0:40:31 | 0:40:34 | |
"May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. | 0:40:34 | 0:40:37 | |
-"Good night, good night!" -DOOR OPENS | 0:40:37 | 0:40:40 | |
Make it good morning and return to your class, Mr Tassell. | 0:40:40 | 0:40:44 | |
Well, I...I haven't got a class, Miss Whitchurch. | 0:40:44 | 0:40:47 | |
Then don't interrupt ours. I made it perfectly plain on the notice board | 0:40:47 | 0:40:51 | |
that there was to be no interschool poodle-faking. | 0:40:51 | 0:40:54 | |
-And while I... -LAUGHTER | 0:40:54 | 0:40:56 | |
Well, really! | 0:41:00 | 0:41:02 | |
The starboard engine had gone for a burton, | 0:41:02 | 0:41:05 | |
and there was I upside down with nothing on the clock. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:08 | |
So I just pressed on. | 0:41:08 | 0:41:10 | |
You must have had a gorgeously exciting time of it. | 0:41:10 | 0:41:14 | |
-Oh! -I'd simply have adored to see you in your uniform. | 0:41:14 | 0:41:17 | |
Well, I looked much the same as the rest of the bunch. | 0:41:17 | 0:41:20 | |
I say, you girls are bang-on for 17. | 0:41:20 | 0:41:23 | |
Mr Brown, what are you doing with my seniors? | 0:41:23 | 0:41:26 | |
I was just showing them the petunias. Jolly good display this year. | 0:41:26 | 0:41:30 | |
A bit past their best now, of course. | 0:41:30 | 0:41:32 | |
The petunias are not alone in that respect. Will you leave us this minute? | 0:41:32 | 0:41:35 | |
I was only giving them a few hints, facts of nature, nothing else. | 0:41:35 | 0:41:38 | |
You girls get back to your indoor botany at once. | 0:41:38 | 0:41:42 | |
I know it's slightly distracting to have to work in the hall, | 0:41:42 | 0:41:46 | |
but we must try and profit through adversity. | 0:41:46 | 0:41:49 | |
We'll choose a phrase at random | 0:41:49 | 0:41:51 | |
-and see if we can analyse it. -Morning, boys. -Morning, Miss Whitchurch. | 0:41:51 | 0:41:55 | |
-We'll take a phrase... -Please, Mr Pond, | 0:41:55 | 0:41:59 | |
ask your masters not to consort with my staff and girls. | 0:41:59 | 0:42:03 | |
And I think it advisable to alter the curriculum | 0:42:03 | 0:42:06 | |
to cut out the biology classes. | 0:42:06 | 0:42:09 | |
Let us analyse that excellent phrase of John Knox's, | 0:42:12 | 0:42:16 | |
"The first blast of the trumpet | 0:42:16 | 0:42:18 | |
"against the monstrous regiment of women." | 0:42:18 | 0:42:21 | |
That's enough. | 0:42:23 | 0:42:25 | |
The verb in this case is understood. | 0:42:26 | 0:42:28 | |
Like... Like some other things. | 0:42:28 | 0:42:31 | |
So we may take it that the sentence runs, "This IS the first blast of the trumpet," | 0:42:31 | 0:42:37 | |
et cetera, et cetera. | 0:42:37 | 0:42:39 | |
This - the subject. Is - the verb. Everyone paying attention? | 0:42:39 | 0:42:42 | |
-BOYS: Yes, sir. -Very well. | 0:42:42 | 0:42:44 | |
-Talbot! -Sir. -Take 100 lines. | 0:42:44 | 0:42:48 | |
Yes, sir. | 0:42:48 | 0:42:50 | |
How are we to deal with the rest of the...? | 0:42:50 | 0:42:52 | |
-What about the object? -Good morning. -Good morning. | 0:42:54 | 0:42:57 | |
Can any boy tell me what is the object... | 0:42:57 | 0:43:02 | |
-I have called on behalf of Miss Winston... -..in this particular case? | 0:43:02 | 0:43:06 | |
Whose bed is that and where are you taking it? | 0:43:06 | 0:43:09 | |
It belonged to the late cook, sir. | 0:43:09 | 0:43:12 | |
Miss W says Miss J's to have it. | 0:43:12 | 0:43:14 | |
We'll see about that. Take it to my study at once. | 0:43:14 | 0:43:17 | |
I'm sure Mr Pond will listen to reason if I can speak to him. | 0:43:19 | 0:43:23 | |
-He's teaching, I tell you. -You don't seem to realise... | 0:43:23 | 0:43:26 | |
-What is the object? -Up your end, Edwin. | 0:43:26 | 0:43:29 | |
-What is the object...? -Mr Pond... | 0:43:29 | 0:43:32 | |
What's the use? I might as well try to teach in Waterloo station. | 0:43:36 | 0:43:40 | |
There's a lady at the door, sir, wanting to know if you'll vote for Miss Winston in the election. | 0:43:40 | 0:43:45 | |
Mrs Hampstead, tell your lady that if there is a male candidate, | 0:43:47 | 0:43:51 | |
whether he's Conservative, socialist, communist or anarchist, | 0:43:51 | 0:43:55 | |
or, for that matter, Liberal, | 0:43:55 | 0:43:57 | |
-he will have my vote. -That's what I thought, sir. | 0:43:57 | 0:44:00 | |
There is NO object in this at all, so let us take the word "trumpet". | 0:44:03 | 0:44:08 | |
It's no use hanging back like that, Margaret. It'll only be the worse for you. | 0:44:08 | 0:44:12 | |
What do you propose we ought to do with "trumpet"? | 0:44:12 | 0:44:16 | |
Margaret, you mustn't think just because you're in a school like this that you can behave as you please. | 0:44:16 | 0:44:21 | |
I repeat - | 0:44:21 | 0:44:22 | |
what do you propose we ought to do with "trumpet"? | 0:44:22 | 0:44:28 | |
-Talbot, another hundred lines. -CRASH | 0:44:28 | 0:44:31 | |
Higher, fat head, higher! | 0:44:31 | 0:44:33 | |
Oh! You wait here. | 0:44:37 | 0:44:38 | |
Now, report to Miss Armstrong at once. | 0:44:38 | 0:44:42 | |
CRASH | 0:44:43 | 0:44:46 | |
All right, let us leave "trumpet" and think of "blast". | 0:44:46 | 0:44:50 | |
Blast, somebody! | 0:44:50 | 0:44:53 | |
BLAST, ANYBODY! | 0:44:53 | 0:44:55 | |
As a young man, | 0:45:30 | 0:45:32 | |
I studied yogi for a brief period. | 0:45:32 | 0:45:34 | |
It has enabled me to bear with fortitude this situation | 0:45:34 | 0:45:38 | |
-which otherwise I could never have endured. -Poppycock! | 0:45:38 | 0:45:41 | |
Please let me finish. | 0:45:41 | 0:45:43 | |
But yogi or no yogi, | 0:45:43 | 0:45:46 | |
I am determined not to allow the situation to deteriorate further, | 0:45:46 | 0:45:50 | |
-if that were possible. -Good afternoon, Mr Tripp. | 0:45:50 | 0:45:52 | |
Furthermore... | 0:45:52 | 0:45:53 | |
Mr Tripp, since you have apparently done nothing to rectify this state of affairs here, | 0:45:54 | 0:45:59 | |
I intend to visit the Ministry this afternoon to see Mr Forrester. | 0:45:59 | 0:46:03 | |
I'm not in the least concerned about an appointment. If Mr Forrester will not see me, I'll speak to my MP. | 0:46:04 | 0:46:10 | |
He's probably playing golf. | 0:46:11 | 0:46:13 | |
Matthews, will you ask Rainbow to get me a taxi, please? | 0:46:13 | 0:46:17 | |
Can I have a word, Miss Whitchurch? | 0:46:17 | 0:46:19 | |
-What is it, Miss Jezzard? -This porter. | 0:46:19 | 0:46:22 | |
He refuses to take orders from me. | 0:46:22 | 0:46:24 | |
I just want to know where I stand. | 0:46:24 | 0:46:25 | |
Every time I ask him to do anything, he says he's too busy. | 0:46:25 | 0:46:29 | |
She says I'm to take the brake to the station, | 0:46:29 | 0:46:31 | |
and Mr Hyde-Brown says I'm to mark out the 2nd XV pitch. Which is it to be? | 0:46:31 | 0:46:36 | |
Will you tell him or shall I? | 0:46:36 | 0:46:40 | |
Very well, sir, it's all I want to know. | 0:46:40 | 0:46:43 | |
Just a moment, Rainbow. | 0:46:43 | 0:46:45 | |
I shall consider these requests entirely on their merits. | 0:46:45 | 0:46:49 | |
That's right, haver about. | 0:46:49 | 0:46:51 | |
Why has the brake to go to the station? | 0:46:51 | 0:46:53 | |
-To meet parents off the 3 o'clock train. -Whose parents? | 0:46:53 | 0:46:57 | |
-Ours. -Ours? | 0:46:57 | 0:46:59 | |
-Ridiculous. -You invited them yourself. | 0:46:59 | 0:47:02 | |
Mr and Mrs Parry, Mrs Jones, and Mr and Mrs Ibbertson. | 0:47:02 | 0:47:06 | |
They were nervous about what sort of school this was, | 0:47:06 | 0:47:09 | |
so you said they could come down and see for themselves. | 0:47:09 | 0:47:12 | |
Why didn't you remind me? We must stop it at once. | 0:47:12 | 0:47:15 | |
Stopping the 3 o'clock will be too much even for you. | 0:47:15 | 0:47:18 | |
It's out of the question having the parents here with this man and his rabble around. | 0:47:18 | 0:47:24 | |
-It had occurred to me... -Nothing ever occurs to you or they wouldn't be coming. | 0:47:24 | 0:47:29 | |
When they see we're sharing a boys' school, they'll withdraw their children. | 0:47:29 | 0:47:33 | |
Before we know where we are, we shall have no school left. | 0:47:33 | 0:47:37 | |
-That will solve the problem. -This is no time for prep school repartee. | 0:47:37 | 0:47:42 | |
Thinking caps. Thinking caps. | 0:47:42 | 0:47:44 | |
I have it! You must remove your boys for the afternoon. | 0:47:46 | 0:47:49 | |
Remove my boys? | 0:47:49 | 0:47:51 | |
From my own school?! | 0:47:51 | 0:47:53 | |
Mr Pond, for the past six days, | 0:47:53 | 0:47:56 | |
-we have been living together with a fair measure of harmony... -Harmony?! | 0:47:56 | 0:48:00 | |
With your shrieking progeny everywhere! | 0:48:00 | 0:48:03 | |
I'm completely unmoved by your plight, madam. I don't give a fig. | 0:48:03 | 0:48:07 | |
Mr Matthews, Miss Jezzard, would you be good enough to wait outside? | 0:48:07 | 0:48:11 | |
And take the porter with you. | 0:48:11 | 0:48:13 | |
There is talk in the common room | 0:48:16 | 0:48:18 | |
that you are seeking an appointment as headmaster of Harlingham. | 0:48:18 | 0:48:22 | |
What has that got to do with removing my boys? | 0:48:22 | 0:48:25 | |
I thought you might like to know that I'm acquainted with one of the governors of that school. | 0:48:25 | 0:48:30 | |
Oh, madam, I should not consider a recommendation from you an advantage. | 0:48:30 | 0:48:35 | |
I wasn't thinking of a recommendation. | 0:48:35 | 0:48:37 | |
You were trying to coerce me with threats, madam? | 0:48:39 | 0:48:42 | |
The law takes a serious view of that. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:44 | |
Have you the temerity to suggest that I'm trying to blackmail you?! | 0:48:44 | 0:48:48 | |
I shall merely make a factual report. | 0:48:48 | 0:48:50 | |
I see. | 0:48:52 | 0:48:54 | |
There appear to be no depths to which you are not prepared to sink. | 0:48:54 | 0:48:58 | |
If you have nothing to add but idle abuse, | 0:49:00 | 0:49:03 | |
shall we recall Miss Jezzard and Mr Matthews and lay our plans? | 0:49:03 | 0:49:07 | |
Run! Run! | 0:49:11 | 0:49:13 | |
What on earth's going on with the goalposts? | 0:49:32 | 0:49:35 | |
The school's got to beat it to the swimming baths. | 0:49:35 | 0:49:39 | |
-What? -Some of the girls' parents are visiting. | 0:49:39 | 0:49:41 | |
There's to be no sign that the shadow of man has crossed here. | 0:49:41 | 0:49:45 | |
-How long's this to last? -Matinee performance only. | 0:49:45 | 0:49:48 | |
Oh, look, there they are. | 0:50:13 | 0:50:15 | |
Group dancing. | 0:50:18 | 0:50:20 | |
-Yeah. Two guineas extra. -We know. | 0:50:20 | 0:50:23 | |
Mrs Ibbertson is wearing that white hat she wore in the summer. | 0:50:25 | 0:50:29 | |
This is no time for sartorial tittle-tattle. | 0:50:29 | 0:50:31 | |
How do you do, Mrs Ibbertson? So nice to see you. Miss Jezzard. | 0:50:31 | 0:50:35 | |
-..How do you do, Mrs Jones? -A delightful spot. -Yes. | 0:50:35 | 0:50:39 | |
-..How do you do, Mr Parry? -How do you do? | 0:50:39 | 0:50:42 | |
Tea will be laid in the study. A gracious old hall, don't you think? | 0:50:42 | 0:50:46 | |
Yes. Still it must be trying to share a school. | 0:50:46 | 0:50:50 | |
We are getting on nicely considering. A certain amount of hugger-mugger, of course. | 0:50:50 | 0:50:54 | |
-Is there any difference in class with the other school? -Not so much of class as of outlook. | 0:50:54 | 0:50:59 | |
I think I'll show you the dining hall first. | 0:51:01 | 0:51:04 | |
-I hope you don't let the girls mix too much. -Not if I can help it. | 0:51:04 | 0:51:08 | |
This dining hall is a gem in its way. | 0:51:08 | 0:51:11 | |
Of course, it's rather a squeeze when they're all here. | 0:51:11 | 0:51:15 | |
But we stagger most of the meals. | 0:51:15 | 0:51:17 | |
-"Guard thine honour"? -The Nutbourne school motto. | 0:51:20 | 0:51:23 | |
In my young day, such things were taken for granted. | 0:51:23 | 0:51:26 | |
Well, the place goes back to Henry VIII. | 0:51:26 | 0:51:29 | |
They tell me this part of the building used to be a barn | 0:51:31 | 0:51:35 | |
before they rebuilt it. Well... | 0:51:35 | 0:51:37 | |
what about pottering upstairs? I'm sure a cup of tea would be welcome. | 0:51:37 | 0:51:41 | |
-It would indeed. -And then to the fray like giants refreshed. Off we go. | 0:51:41 | 0:51:45 | |
I understand Henry built it for Anne Boleyn, | 0:51:47 | 0:51:49 | |
but she was beheaded before she could move in. | 0:51:49 | 0:51:52 | |
Such an unlucky woman, don't you think? | 0:51:52 | 0:51:55 | |
-Shall we see the other school? -They've gone on an all-day ramble. | 0:51:56 | 0:52:01 | |
-I wish you could have seen us working in tandem. No, that's the common room. -What a snug retreat! | 0:52:01 | 0:52:07 | |
Yes, it is rather nice. A bit on the small side for our two staffs, but it serves. | 0:52:07 | 0:52:12 | |
-Looks out onto the grounds. May I? -Of course. | 0:52:12 | 0:52:15 | |
-Oh! There's nothing much to see, I'm afraid. -Quite an attractive view. | 0:52:19 | 0:52:22 | |
Yes, isn't it? They tell me you can see the sea on a clear day. | 0:52:22 | 0:52:26 | |
(Stand with your back to the bookcase.) | 0:52:27 | 0:52:30 | |
Nutbourne must be a rather unusual school. | 0:52:30 | 0:52:33 | |
Surely they're not in favour of blood sports? | 0:52:33 | 0:52:36 | |
Oh, I gather that was a present from somebody's aunt. | 0:52:36 | 0:52:40 | |
Just a minute. ..Excuse me. It's that stupid village newsagent. | 0:52:42 | 0:52:46 | |
I ordered The Lady, and he sent Men Only. | 0:52:46 | 0:52:49 | |
Shall we be getting along to my study now? | 0:52:50 | 0:52:54 | |
What on earth are these doing here?! | 0:53:00 | 0:53:03 | |
Well, this is Janet Hackett, who won the 220 yards breaststroke in 1946. | 0:53:03 | 0:53:10 | |
And this is Evelyn Forbes, who won the 100 yards freestyle in 1947. | 0:53:10 | 0:53:15 | |
And... | 0:53:15 | 0:53:17 | |
this is Frieda Harris, our champion Morris dancer caught in mid-action. I think that's all. | 0:53:17 | 0:53:23 | |
Telegram for Mr Pond. I thought it might be important. | 0:53:32 | 0:53:36 | |
-Better open it. -I'm second master. If anyone's going to open it... -Oh, shut up. | 0:53:36 | 0:53:40 | |
I say, this is the absolute penultimate. | 0:53:40 | 0:53:43 | |
-The governors of Harlingham are coming here today. -But... -Here. | 0:53:43 | 0:53:47 | |
-He did say they were coming. -But he couldn't have known when. | 0:53:47 | 0:53:51 | |
-He'll never be headmaster of Harlingham now. -You don't need a crystal to tell you that. | 0:53:51 | 0:53:56 | |
-He will remain here then. -For life. You realise what that means? | 0:53:56 | 0:53:59 | |
-What are we to do? -We must put the school back and get Pond back. | 0:53:59 | 0:54:03 | |
-What time is his train? -3.15. -10 minutes. -Get rid of the girls, I'll go to the station. | 0:54:03 | 0:54:07 | |
There's Pond. Good afternoon, Mr Pond. | 0:54:20 | 0:54:23 | |
I thought you might not have received our telegram. | 0:54:23 | 0:54:26 | |
Dr Collet wanted it to be a surprise visit, but I told him that would not be fair. | 0:54:26 | 0:54:30 | |
Just didn't want anything specially laid on. I wanted to see the school in normal conditions. | 0:54:30 | 0:54:35 | |
So would I. | 0:54:35 | 0:54:37 | |
Yes, so would I. | 0:54:37 | 0:54:39 | |
So you shall. | 0:54:39 | 0:54:41 | |
Well, well, well, how do you do, gentlemen? Welcome to Nutbourne. | 0:54:41 | 0:54:46 | |
Just that your telegram scarcely left me enough time | 0:54:46 | 0:54:50 | |
to make the necessary arrangements for your...reception. | 0:54:50 | 0:54:54 | |
Will you excuse me one moment while I see what's happened to the taxi? | 0:54:54 | 0:54:58 | |
Thank heavens you're still here. | 0:55:01 | 0:55:03 | |
Gentlemen. (Mr Billings, keep your wits about you and smile.) | 0:55:03 | 0:55:07 | |
Gentlemen, this is Mr Billings, my maths master. | 0:55:07 | 0:55:10 | |
He very thoughtfully brought the school brake along. | 0:55:10 | 0:55:14 | |
-..Thank you. -That's all right, sir. | 0:55:14 | 0:55:16 | |
-It was not our intention to disrupt the school work. -On the contrary. | 0:55:16 | 0:55:20 | |
I can't imagine Mr Billings has left the boys without problems to solve. | 0:55:20 | 0:55:24 | |
-That so, Billings? -Yes, sir. I imagine they'll take a while to clear them up. | 0:55:24 | 0:55:28 | |
Yes. | 0:55:28 | 0:55:30 | |
No doubt. | 0:55:30 | 0:55:31 | |
-Well, there's no hurry. -We want to catch the last train back, Mr Pond. | 0:55:31 | 0:55:35 | |
Beautiful country round here, isn't it? | 0:55:35 | 0:55:38 | |
Yes, but as I said, we want to catch the last train back. | 0:55:38 | 0:55:41 | |
You can do that but there's plenty of time to spare. | 0:55:41 | 0:55:45 | |
-I do love this part of the country. -Delightful. | 0:55:45 | 0:55:47 | |
Which...way are you going, Billings? | 0:55:51 | 0:55:54 | |
Through Fairhurst and Upper Dudley and Lower Dudley and Braxton. | 0:55:54 | 0:55:58 | |
-The short way. -That's right, Billings, the short way. | 0:55:58 | 0:56:02 | |
I ask no more for youth than space and air and freedom from distraction. | 0:56:02 | 0:56:06 | |
I'm glad to hear that, Miss Whitchurch. | 0:56:06 | 0:56:08 | |
-Cynthia has reached the difficult age. -Angela's just the same. | 0:56:08 | 0:56:12 | |
-I'm sure Miss Whitchurch grasps the dangers of adolescence. -Firmly, in both hands, if I may say so. | 0:56:12 | 0:56:19 | |
-TELEPHONE RINGS Shall I answer it? -Please do. | 0:56:19 | 0:56:22 | |
With all the discoveries of modern science these days, | 0:56:22 | 0:56:26 | |
it is possible to...to...climb to its topmost branches... What? | 0:56:26 | 0:56:31 | |
-A Mr Hartley of the Ministry. -Tell him we'll ring him back in an hour. | 0:56:31 | 0:56:35 | |
I wonder if you'd mind if we rang back. You see... I beg your pardon? | 0:56:35 | 0:56:41 | |
Just wondering how we're settling down, I expect. | 0:56:41 | 0:56:44 | |
Now, let me see...where were we? | 0:56:44 | 0:56:47 | |
Uh... Oh, yes! It is possible to climb to its topmost branches | 0:56:47 | 0:56:51 | |
-and select the fruit where we will. -Are you sure you can't? | 0:56:51 | 0:56:56 | |
-Oh, dear. -I said we'd ring him back. | 0:56:56 | 0:56:58 | |
He's going out. He wants to know if we're still in trouble. | 0:56:58 | 0:57:03 | |
I haven't the remotest idea what he's talking about. We're perfectly happy. | 0:57:03 | 0:57:08 | |
No, we're all right, thank you very much. | 0:57:08 | 0:57:11 | |
Good afternoon. | 0:57:11 | 0:57:12 | |
Where was I? | 0:57:12 | 0:57:14 | |
-Up the tree. -Oh, yes! | 0:57:14 | 0:57:16 | |
Well, I do think it's a jolly rotten show. Not a word of explanation... | 0:57:16 | 0:57:22 | |
-We'll explain later. -Well, it's not fair. | 0:57:22 | 0:57:25 | |
Now look...! Where are you going with our goalposts? | 0:57:25 | 0:57:29 | |
Honestly! | 0:57:29 | 0:57:30 | |
I thought you said the school was a mere five minutes from the station. | 0:57:30 | 0:57:34 | |
-In terms of jet propulsion(!) -It said Nutbourne down there. | 0:57:34 | 0:57:38 | |
We've a first-class rugger team at Harlingham. What shape's yours in? | 0:57:46 | 0:57:50 | |
It varies. | 0:57:50 | 0:57:51 | |
Very pleasant outlook here. | 0:57:51 | 0:57:54 | |
Uninterrupted too, the estate agents say. | 0:57:54 | 0:57:57 | |
Mr Tassell, I'm all for team spirit and I don't want to rock the boat, | 0:57:57 | 0:58:01 | |
but I can't keep my girls cooped up here all afternoon. | 0:58:01 | 0:58:04 | |
Well, just hold on a minute. | 0:58:04 | 0:58:06 | |
Ah, Matthews. | 0:58:09 | 0:58:11 | |
This is Mr Matthews, my most able second-in-command. | 0:58:11 | 0:58:15 | |
-Mr Angus McNally, Dr Collet... -How do you do, sir? | 0:58:15 | 0:58:17 | |
..and Reverend James Rich. Well, gentlemen, shall we go inside? | 0:58:17 | 0:58:22 | |
Here we are. This is the oldest part of the school. It goes back to Henry VIII. | 0:58:29 | 0:58:33 | |
-Anyone in the dining hall? -No, sir. | 0:58:33 | 0:58:35 | |
Well, Billings, perhaps you'll show it to these gentlemen. | 0:58:35 | 0:58:39 | |
-Matthews and I will see about refreshment. -After you, gentlemen. | 0:58:39 | 0:58:44 | |
-What happened? -I'm sorry, sir. We did what we could in the time. | 0:58:44 | 0:58:47 | |
-We got the girls off the playing field. -Where are the rest of them? -Still here, I'm afraid. | 0:58:47 | 0:58:51 | |
-We couldn't tell Miss Whitchurch, she's having tea with the parents in her study. -HER study? | 0:58:51 | 0:58:56 | |
-YOUR study, sir. -She won't be for long. | 0:58:56 | 0:58:58 | |
There's simply no holding Byron at lacrosse this term, | 0:58:58 | 0:59:02 | |
so Tennyson and Shelley are going to stop the rot. | 0:59:02 | 0:59:05 | |
When you've finished your tea, we'll see how the battle is faring. | 0:59:05 | 0:59:10 | |
-RAINBOW: -Up your end! Higher! | 0:59:10 | 0:59:12 | |
The sun's very gay this afternoon. | 0:59:19 | 0:59:21 | |
Another cup of tea, Mr Ibbertson? | 0:59:21 | 0:59:23 | |
Miss Whitchurch, I must speak to you at once. | 0:59:25 | 0:59:27 | |
Oh, Doctor, if it's about that little protuberance | 0:59:27 | 0:59:30 | |
on Cecilia Watson's neck, I'll see you in the common room. | 0:59:30 | 0:59:34 | |
If you don't mind, Doctor. Excuse me, won't you? | 0:59:34 | 0:59:37 | |
I hardly think buns and protuberances mix. | 0:59:37 | 0:59:40 | |
How dare you burst in there, jeopardising my position in that reckless fashion? | 0:59:40 | 0:59:46 | |
I don't care what you have to say. Do I have to remind you about the governors of Harlingham? | 0:59:46 | 0:59:51 | |
You do not. They are in the dining hall, here to see the school. | 0:59:51 | 0:59:54 | |
They've shut Shelley, Tennyson and Byron in the pav. | 0:59:54 | 0:59:57 | |
-Shut your other brats with them, I'm bringing my boys back from the swimming pool at once. -Quiet. | 0:59:57 | 1:00:02 | |
-My parents will hear you. -Your parents can go and... -Mr Pond! | 1:00:02 | 1:00:07 | |
I don't want the whole building involved in the brouhaha. We'll thrash this out in the common room. | 1:00:07 | 1:00:12 | |
1931 was a vintage year, as you see. | 1:00:18 | 1:00:20 | |
-Three scholarships to Oxford, two to Cambridge. -Before Pond's time, I imagine. | 1:00:20 | 1:00:24 | |
It's no use brandishing governors. One look at what's going on, and my chances of Harlingham are ruined. | 1:00:24 | 1:00:29 | |
I'll have to establish myself as a victim of circumstances. | 1:00:29 | 1:00:32 | |
Ramsden, tell Mr Matthews to have the boys brought back from the swimming pool at once. | 1:00:32 | 1:00:39 | |
So that's where they are. | 1:00:39 | 1:00:40 | |
My mind is made up on one thing, Miss Whitchurch. | 1:00:40 | 1:00:43 | |
If I sink, you sink with me. | 1:00:43 | 1:00:45 | |
Don't act as if next week will do, man! | 1:00:45 | 1:00:49 | |
Wait! | 1:00:49 | 1:00:50 | |
Why should we sink, Mr Pond? | 1:00:50 | 1:00:53 | |
If we keep our wits, we can still come through with flying colours. | 1:00:53 | 1:00:57 | |
Let us examine this problem calmly. | 1:00:57 | 1:01:00 | |
Miss Whitchurch, the governors are in the dining hall. | 1:01:00 | 1:01:03 | |
And my parents are in the study. Both parties wish to tour the school. Very well, so they shall. | 1:01:03 | 1:01:09 | |
But never the twain shall meet. | 1:01:09 | 1:01:11 | |
-What will happen when the governors meet a swarm on girls? -They mustn't. | 1:01:11 | 1:01:15 | |
The governors must only see boys, the parents, girls. | 1:01:15 | 1:01:19 | |
We'll have two conducted tours | 1:01:19 | 1:01:21 | |
going clockwise or anticlockwise, as the case may be. | 1:01:21 | 1:01:25 | |
It's no use being lily-livered. | 1:01:25 | 1:01:28 | |
If one party leaves five minutes after the other, we'll have time to interchange classes. | 1:01:28 | 1:01:33 | |
It'll have to be a miracle of timing. | 1:01:33 | 1:01:35 | |
If both parties follow the same course. | 1:01:35 | 1:01:39 | |
If you want my opinion, the whole thing's imposs. | 1:01:39 | 1:01:42 | |
We don't want your opinion. Thank you, Miss Gossage. | 1:01:42 | 1:01:45 | |
-Every single boy and girl would have to co-operate. -Yes. | 1:01:45 | 1:01:48 | |
That would mean Doris, Cynthia and Pamela deceiving their parents. | 1:01:48 | 1:01:51 | |
An extra half holiday will cure that. Where's your child psychology? | 1:01:51 | 1:01:55 | |
That's not the school spirit. | 1:01:55 | 1:01:57 | |
-Don't talk to Mr Pond like that, Gossage. -Thank you, Miss Whitchurch. | 1:01:57 | 1:02:01 | |
-Leave these arrangements to us. -What do you envisage? | 1:02:01 | 1:02:04 | |
If I take my parents to see the school museum while you bring your governors to tea in the study, | 1:02:04 | 1:02:09 | |
-that will give us time to set the stage. -Yes. | 1:02:09 | 1:02:12 | |
-Now, let us swiftly plot the itinerary. -Please, allow me. | 1:02:12 | 1:02:16 | |
Thank you, Mr Pond. | 1:02:16 | 1:02:17 | |
Now, this must be very exactly timed. | 1:02:17 | 1:02:20 | |
-Shall we first synchronise our watches? -Excellent. | 1:02:20 | 1:02:24 | |
I'm not a complaining man, Maude, but take these rugby posts. | 1:02:24 | 1:02:28 | |
It's an annual job that I don't look forward to, | 1:02:28 | 1:02:31 | |
but today we've had 'em up, taken 'em down and had 'em up again! | 1:02:31 | 1:02:36 | |
Now you've to take them down again. Tea for four in the study, Mrs Hampstead. | 1:02:36 | 1:02:41 | |
I think everyone's gone absolutely batty. | 1:02:41 | 1:02:43 | |
-The governors of Harlingham have arrived. -What? But... | 1:02:43 | 1:02:47 | |
-Don't argue, get the boys back to school. -BLOWS WHISTLE | 1:02:47 | 1:02:51 | |
We'll just have a quick cup, then start on our travels. | 1:02:51 | 1:02:56 | |
Priscilla Johnson was romping in a haystack when that Bastard Purple alighted on her. | 1:03:03 | 1:03:08 | |
She had him in the killing bottle in a flash. | 1:03:08 | 1:03:10 | |
Here they come, girls. Onto the field again. Buck up! | 1:03:10 | 1:03:13 | |
Hurrah! | 1:03:13 | 1:03:16 | |
Well, I think that exhausts the butterflies. | 1:03:23 | 1:03:27 | |
Shall we start out tour of the classrooms? | 1:03:27 | 1:03:30 | |
It's always been my view that too much... | 1:03:30 | 1:03:33 | |
-WHISTLE BLOWS Is that a rugby game? -No. | 1:03:33 | 1:03:36 | |
Short blast. Too much concentration on examinations makes boys sluggish. | 1:03:36 | 1:03:41 | |
Good afternoon, girls. You may sit down. | 1:03:41 | 1:03:44 | |
-Good afternoon, Miss Harper. -Good afternoon, Miss Whitchurch. | 1:03:44 | 1:03:48 | |
-This is the sixth form. They're taking French history. It'll be Louis XIII. -There's Angela. | 1:03:48 | 1:03:54 | |
Could we have a word with Angela? | 1:03:54 | 1:03:56 | |
If you wish. Angela Parry, you may fall out. | 1:03:56 | 1:03:59 | |
Hello, Mumsy. | 1:04:01 | 1:04:03 | |
-Hello, Pop. -Hello, Angela. -It's good to see you. | 1:04:03 | 1:04:07 | |
Your parents want to know how you like the school, | 1:04:07 | 1:04:09 | |
but don't commit yourself unless you've made up your mind. | 1:04:09 | 1:04:13 | |
Oh, I have. I think it's an absolute scorcher! I never dreamt... | 1:04:13 | 1:04:17 | |
How's your history progressing, Angela? | 1:04:17 | 1:04:19 | |
She's always been weak on dates. | 1:04:19 | 1:04:21 | |
-Not this term, Pop. -What are you up to at the moment, Angela? | 1:04:21 | 1:04:25 | |
Oh, nothing, Mumsy. | 1:04:25 | 1:04:26 | |
-If they've been telling you about Archie Brown... -Archie... | 1:04:26 | 1:04:31 | |
Archibald Brown, in case you didn't know, was the man who held the torch for Guy Fawkes. | 1:04:31 | 1:04:37 | |
I've been running them over the "backroom boys" of history. | 1:04:37 | 1:04:41 | |
Get back to your class now, Angela. Say goodbye to your parents. | 1:04:41 | 1:04:45 | |
-Bye, Mumsy. Bye, Pop. -Goodbye, dear. -Goodbye, Angela. -That's right. | 1:04:45 | 1:04:48 | |
Come along, everybody. Such a charming child. | 1:04:48 | 1:04:51 | |
A great favourite with the other girls. A pity she's leaving this term. | 1:04:51 | 1:04:56 | |
Oh, to the right now, Mrs Ibbertson. | 1:04:56 | 1:04:59 | |
OK. | 1:05:06 | 1:05:08 | |
All clear. Away with the first party. | 1:05:10 | 1:05:12 | |
Right, move one pace forward. March. | 1:05:12 | 1:05:15 | |
Now, at the double. | 1:05:15 | 1:05:17 | |
-Surely they'll find out. -Ours is not to reason why. -If they do, we'll have to find fresh posts. | 1:05:24 | 1:05:28 | |
-Yes, at a progressive school where the kids throw inkpots! -It'll be a rest after this. | 1:05:28 | 1:05:33 | |
-That must be the start of the game. -No, no, three short blasts for that. | 1:05:35 | 1:05:40 | |
If you're finished with your tea, we can start on our circumambulation. | 1:05:40 | 1:05:45 | |
Now we're going to see the miming class. They're doing the death of Charles I. | 1:05:45 | 1:05:49 | |
-The one with the crown is the king. -Could we go in and watch? | 1:05:49 | 1:05:54 | |
Well, perhaps for a few minutes. | 1:05:54 | 1:05:57 | |
But no talking. It's an iron rule with the miming class. | 1:05:57 | 1:06:01 | |
Good afternoon, boys. Good afternoon, Mr Tassell. Sit down, boys. | 1:06:11 | 1:06:15 | |
Gentlemen, they're taking English. | 1:06:15 | 1:06:17 | |
Carry on, Mr Tassell. | 1:06:17 | 1:06:19 | |
As I was saying, a mixed metaphor is an expression in which two or three metaphors are confused. | 1:06:19 | 1:06:25 | |
-Could the boys give an example? I'd like to see what they know. -Certainly. Metcalf, | 1:06:25 | 1:06:30 | |
would you give us an example of a mixed metaphor? | 1:06:30 | 1:06:33 | |
Playing with fire. Skating on thin ice. And if anything happens to upset the applecart, | 1:06:33 | 1:06:38 | |
someone is going to lose his bread and butter. | 1:06:38 | 1:06:42 | |
Very good, Metcalf. Sit down. | 1:06:42 | 1:06:44 | |
-They seem quite bright. -Yes. | 1:06:44 | 1:06:46 | |
-That satisfies me. Shall we move on? -Gentlemen, wouldn't you like to hear a little...onomatopoeia? | 1:06:46 | 1:06:51 | |
They're good at onomatopoeia. | 1:06:51 | 1:06:54 | |
-What did you say your name was? -Metcalf, sir. -Metcalf. | 1:06:54 | 1:06:57 | |
To your right, gentlemen, to your right. | 1:06:57 | 1:07:01 | |
Down, girls, away you go. | 1:07:32 | 1:07:34 | |
Come along, Jennifer, no loitering. | 1:07:36 | 1:07:38 | |
The school curriculum, I'll explain it quite briefly. | 1:07:38 | 1:07:42 | |
We don't want to know about the curriculum. We want a picture of the way the school is running. | 1:07:42 | 1:07:47 | |
-Who on earth was that? -Little Lucy, the housekeeper's daughter. | 1:07:58 | 1:08:02 | |
The rascal's not allowed upstairs. I'll have to speak to Mrs Hampstead. | 1:08:02 | 1:08:06 | |
Gentlemen, shall we make history? | 1:08:06 | 1:08:08 | |
It's a maze of corridors around here. | 1:08:11 | 1:08:13 | |
This way, if you please. Round the corner. | 1:08:13 | 1:08:16 | |
We'll have to hurry to see the dressmaking class before break. | 1:08:16 | 1:08:20 | |
The middle third are leading the school with their underwear this term. | 1:08:20 | 1:08:25 | |
-The upper fifth are taking William of Orange. -We needn't bother with that. -I don't think so. | 1:08:25 | 1:08:31 | |
-Not William of Orange? -I'd rather see the rugger. -So you shall. | 1:08:31 | 1:08:35 | |
We've got to see other things first. | 1:08:35 | 1:08:37 | |
-They skipped the upper fifth. They're catching up. -Run! | 1:08:42 | 1:08:45 | |
Quite an impressive collection of nether garments, Miss Curtis. | 1:08:45 | 1:08:49 | |
I think we'd better pass on now. | 1:08:50 | 1:08:53 | |
I don't want you to miss the choir's rendering of Nymphs And Shepherds, Come Away. | 1:08:53 | 1:08:58 | |
Thank you, Miss Curtis. Come along, or we shall be too late. | 1:08:58 | 1:09:02 | |
Edward, please, you simply must look at these etchings. | 1:09:02 | 1:09:06 | |
-This particular one... -Interesting, I'm sure, but not what we came to see. Where do we go from here? | 1:09:06 | 1:09:13 | |
Oh, let me see. | 1:09:13 | 1:09:15 | |
Yes, I think we might risk a little theoretical physics. | 1:09:15 | 1:09:19 | |
BOYS LAUGH AND GIGGLE | 1:09:20 | 1:09:23 | |
Quiet, boys, quiet. Get that stuff out of sight. | 1:09:25 | 1:09:28 | |
We seem to be doing a lot of padding round, don't we? | 1:09:28 | 1:09:32 | |
Oh, how stupid of me! | 1:09:32 | 1:09:34 | |
The physics class is first right and first right again. 15 years here and I don't know my own way yet! | 1:09:34 | 1:09:40 | |
-They've gone down the wrong corridor. -Gosh, that's torn it! | 1:09:41 | 1:09:45 | |
Nymphs And Shepherds should be accompanied by a recorder and a harpsichord. | 1:09:45 | 1:09:49 | |
-What is it, dear? -They've gone the wrong way. -Don't bother me now, Alice. Unpick it and start again. | 1:09:49 | 1:09:56 | |
She's such a panicky child. She never manages blackberry stitches. | 1:09:56 | 1:10:00 | |
Oh, we've plenty of cupboard accommodation. | 1:10:00 | 1:10:03 | |
Oh, I should have known they were there. I'm so sorry. | 1:10:03 | 1:10:06 | |
A mistake at the sports shop. They sent the wrong sort. | 1:10:06 | 1:10:10 | |
This is indeed circumambulation. | 1:10:10 | 1:10:12 | |
Pack them all in, Helen. | 1:10:12 | 1:10:15 | |
Oh, we're almost there, gentlemen. | 1:10:15 | 1:10:17 | |
-Good heavens! Who did that? -That reminds me. -I'm afraid it would. | 1:10:17 | 1:10:21 | |
All in good time, Doctor. I'll enquire into this later. | 1:10:21 | 1:10:24 | |
Now... | 1:10:24 | 1:10:26 | |
Good afternoon, boys. Sit down. | 1:10:28 | 1:10:31 | |
Mr Ramsden. This is the middle fifth. They're fairly advanced with their physics, I'm happy to say. | 1:10:31 | 1:10:37 | |
-Electronics? Well... -What the devil's this? | 1:10:37 | 1:10:40 | |
Has the dressmaking class been here? | 1:10:44 | 1:10:47 | |
Many boys go into the navy. We had a request from the Admiralty that they should mend their own clothes. | 1:10:47 | 1:10:53 | |
-Yes, but this is crepe de Chine underwear. -Huh! Lucky to get it! | 1:10:53 | 1:10:57 | |
Very, very lucky indeed! | 1:10:57 | 1:11:00 | |
# ..In these groves Let's sport and play | 1:11:00 | 1:11:03 | |
# Let's sport and play Let's sport and play | 1:11:03 | 1:11:06 | |
# For this is Flora's holiday | 1:11:06 | 1:11:09 | |
# This is Flora's holiday | 1:11:09 | 1:11:11 | |
# This is Flora's holiday... # There's Angela again. | 1:11:11 | 1:11:15 | |
Fancy! There must have been a quick changeover while we came upstairs. | 1:11:15 | 1:11:21 | |
SINGING CONTINUES | 1:11:21 | 1:11:24 | |
I'm sorry we couldn't stay longer. | 1:11:28 | 1:11:30 | |
# Your flocks may now Now, now, now | 1:11:32 | 1:11:34 | |
# Now, now, now Now, now, now | 1:11:34 | 1:11:36 | |
# Securely rove... # | 1:11:36 | 1:11:38 | |
I love listening to boy sopranos, don't you? Sometimes it's impossible to distinguish them from girls. | 1:11:38 | 1:11:45 | |
-BOYS SING IN DEEP VOICES -# Where have you been all the day Billy boy, Billy boy? | 1:11:45 | 1:11:49 | |
# Where have you been all the day My Billy boy...? # | 1:11:49 | 1:11:53 | |
I believe in contrast too. I'm for developing musical appreciation. | 1:11:53 | 1:11:58 | |
-We don't want to be bothered by this, Dr Collins. -What? | 1:11:58 | 1:12:02 | |
-No, I suppose not. -I'd rather like to. | 1:12:02 | 1:12:05 | |
No, I thought not. I'd like you to look into the sick room a moment. | 1:12:05 | 1:12:08 | |
I'm more interested in the fit than the unfit. | 1:12:08 | 1:12:11 | |
-What about the rugger? -Immediately afterwards. | 1:12:11 | 1:12:13 | |
To the right, then up the stairs. | 1:12:16 | 1:12:18 | |
We haven't had many people in the sick room. I think the air must agree with them. | 1:12:22 | 1:12:27 | |
It's nice to have the sick room at the top of the house. So much more air. | 1:12:27 | 1:12:32 | |
We mustn't stop long. Good afternoon, girls. | 1:12:32 | 1:12:35 | |
Good afternoon, Miss Whitchurch. | 1:12:35 | 1:12:37 | |
I mustn't let you pick up germs, or the doctor will be on my track. Now the gymnasium. | 1:12:37 | 1:12:42 | |
-To your right and downstairs. -DOOR CLOSES | 1:12:42 | 1:12:44 | |
I hate to be a nuisance, but I'm most anxious to see the lacrosse. | 1:12:51 | 1:12:55 | |
Yes, Mrs Jones, we'll see what we can do. You'll be delighted with the gym display. | 1:12:55 | 1:13:00 | |
Pleasant little gym, isn't it? | 1:13:04 | 1:13:06 | |
Why, there's Angela again. | 1:13:09 | 1:13:11 | |
Yes, the child's quite ubiquitous. | 1:13:11 | 1:13:14 | |
Miss Harper. (It should be rugby now, but tell Miss Gossage to lay on lacrosse in five minutes.) | 1:13:14 | 1:13:20 | |
-Very good. -Thank you. | 1:13:20 | 1:13:22 | |
Gossy, you're to get the girls back on the field with lacrosse again. | 1:13:26 | 1:13:31 | |
-But they've just started a rugger game. -Miss Whitchurch's orders. | 1:13:31 | 1:13:35 | |
All right, girls, back on the field. | 1:13:35 | 1:13:38 | |
Here we are. | 1:13:40 | 1:13:42 | |
Nothing much wrong with the patients, I'm glad to say. | 1:13:42 | 1:13:45 | |
Now for the gym. | 1:13:45 | 1:13:47 | |
-Just time for a quick look at the garden, then to the lacrosse, eh, Mrs Jones? -Thank you. -Left here. | 1:13:47 | 1:13:53 | |
Come on, girls, out! | 1:13:55 | 1:13:57 | |
Right, boys, on the mat, quickly! | 1:14:04 | 1:14:07 | |
Down. | 1:14:07 | 1:14:08 | |
Change round. | 1:14:08 | 1:14:10 | |
I've got a special display laid on for you. | 1:14:10 | 1:14:13 | |
-They're coming. -Here... | 1:14:13 | 1:14:15 | |
This way, gentlemen, | 1:14:15 | 1:14:17 | |
the boys are very keen. | 1:14:17 | 1:14:19 | |
Good, good. Very good, Tassell. | 1:14:28 | 1:14:31 | |
Yes, there's nothing like plenty of good, healthy exercise. | 1:14:31 | 1:14:36 | |
Don't you agree, Doctor? | 1:14:36 | 1:14:38 | |
Where's Dr Collet? | 1:14:38 | 1:14:39 | |
Where's Dr Collet?! | 1:14:39 | 1:14:41 | |
-Good afternoon. Could you tell me where I can find Miss Whitchurch? -I've never heard of her. | 1:14:41 | 1:14:46 | |
Dr Collet! Where's Dr Collet? | 1:14:49 | 1:14:51 | |
Dr Collet! | 1:14:52 | 1:14:54 | |
Oh! Oh! | 1:14:58 | 1:14:59 | |
-Mr Pond! -We're waiting for an explanation, Mr Pond. | 1:15:05 | 1:15:08 | |
Can't you see I'm trying to think of one? | 1:15:08 | 1:15:10 | |
Never mind, come outside, I'll show you something. | 1:15:10 | 1:15:13 | |
GIRLS SHOUT Take a look at that. | 1:15:17 | 1:15:20 | |
What on earth?! | 1:15:20 | 1:15:22 | |
We won seven matches last term and hope to do even better this term. | 1:15:35 | 1:15:39 | |
That's bad. | 1:15:41 | 1:15:43 | |
Come on, girls, tackle him low. Get him down. | 1:15:47 | 1:15:50 | |
-Stop it! -Hold him, hold him! | 1:15:50 | 1:15:53 | |
Stop it, Gossage. Stop it. | 1:15:53 | 1:15:56 | |
That's ghastly. | 1:15:56 | 1:15:58 | |
Lacrosse. | 1:15:58 | 1:16:00 | |
La-double-cross. | 1:16:02 | 1:16:04 | |
-It's unbelievable. -It's monstrous! | 1:16:04 | 1:16:07 | |
Excuse me, you're Mr Pond, I believe. | 1:16:07 | 1:16:09 | |
My name is West, regional officer of the Ministry. | 1:16:09 | 1:16:12 | |
I've been instructed to deal with this matter. Most unfortunate, but I think I've found the solution. | 1:16:12 | 1:16:18 | |
You are a co-educational school, I believe. | 1:16:18 | 1:16:21 | |
Well, I've arranged for another co-education school to replace St Swithin's next Wednesday. | 1:16:21 | 1:16:27 | |
-What, another school? -It looks as if they're ahead of schedule. | 1:16:27 | 1:16:31 | |
-Have you the faintest idea what's going on? -No, dear. | 1:16:49 | 1:16:52 | |
BELLS RING, HOOTERS BLARE | 1:16:59 | 1:17:01 | |
I have a brother | 1:17:23 | 1:17:25 | |
who grows groundnuts in Tanganyika. | 1:17:25 | 1:17:27 | |
He writes that there are splendid opportunities | 1:17:27 | 1:17:30 | |
for education among the natives. | 1:17:30 | 1:17:32 | |
Oh, madam, I'm amenable to any suggestion. | 1:17:32 | 1:17:35 |