Spring Has Come Girls Clean Elephant And Get Themselves Dirty Footage

SPRING HAS COME Girls Clean Elephant and Get Themselves Dirty
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	Catalog #:	437757
	Clip Number:	437757-1
	Orginal Film:	EP 237
	Timecode:
	Location:	Manchester, England
	Year Shot:	1932 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	No
	Color:	No
	Headings:	ANIMALS/MAMMALS: Elephants
	Description:	SPRING HAS COME! Bathing beauties give elephant a bath and end up looking like losers of a mud-wrestling tournament. An elephant is given a bath by a bevy of bathing beauties. Manchester MLS Nellie the Elephant walks through the Belle Vue Zoo in Manchester, accompanied by an Indian trainer/zookeeper. LS 5 young women in bathing suits some running along the paved pathway, pushing and pulling a barrel on wheels. Pan as the girls trot past near camera and on to rt. LS 2 of the women climb onto elephant's back, helped up by the keeper. Another girl brings them a bucket of water. The elephant stands up and they spill the water, not all on the elephant. MLS the 2 on top scrub with scrub brushes while a girl scrubs Nellie's side with a broom. Another stands on barrel behind the elephant and tosses more water on her. MS the 2 women on top, straddling the elephant's back while scrubbing industriously. MS Nellie gets a manicure. The elephant holds her foot up on barrel while woman leans over, filing her "nails". MLS keeper turns elephant around while the girls continue throwing more buckets of steaming water and scrubbing her all over. LS more scrubbing and splashing. MLS same; girls keep working, gradually getting the dirt off the elephant and onto themselves. MLS elephant walks to left with the 2 girls still riding on her back. Nellie bends down and swishes her trunk around in the mud. The girls have mud all over their legs and the trainer, standing beside, has his once-spotless white robe now spattered with mud. Nellie kneels down and the trainer helps the 2 women down. MS the 5 girls pose in front of elephant. The girls are looking totally bedraggled with mud all over them, but they're laughing, splashing water on each other. MCU 2 of the girls pose, laughing and looking even worse. Now they've got mud all over their faces and hair as well. A bucket of water is thrown onto them from off-cam and they stagger backwards, laughing harder.