A practical joker is trumped by his long-suffering neighbour’s fishy revenge prank. This short comedy was made by Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association (ACA) when cine club activities recommenced in the post war period and production moved into colour. The film opens with a general view of a village nestled in hills. In the village we find a bungalow and garden, and a neighbouring detached house. A man is trimming his hedge. He wipes his brow and takes a break with a...

A practical joker is trumped by his long-suffering neighbour’s fishy revenge prank. This short comedy was made by Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association (ACA) when cine club activities recommenced in the post war period and production moved into colour. The film opens with a general view of a village nestled in hills. In the village we find a bungalow and garden, and a neighbouring detached house. A man is trimming his hedge. He wipes his brow and takes a break with a cigarette. Spotting his neighbour in his garden, he waves. He throws over his cigarette packet. His neighbour opens the pack of Craven “A” cigarettes and finds it empty. He flings the packet down onto his flower bed and storms off. The man grins and finds his own practical joke hilarious. The practical joker is now relaxing in the sunshine on a deckchair. His neighbour joins him in his garden and sits down next to the man. He enthusiastically shows him a book called “The Little Garden”. The pair get up and look at a bunch of flowers blooming in a flower bed. A close-up follows of a bee collecting pollen from the flowers. The practical joker feigns tiredness, stretches and yawns. He goes indoors, but soon sneaks out and ties a string to the back of one of the deckchairs. He calls his neighbour over. But as the poor man goes to sit down, the man pulls the string and collapses the deckchair so that his neighbour falls flat on his back. Peering from the corner of his house (a continuity mistake), the man again finds his own practical joke funny. The practical joker is now inside his home, gutting fish. He presses the guts into a makeshift envelope and addresses it to Herr Seorgni. The man calls round to his neighbour’s bungalow and shouts him from the back garden, presenting him with addressed envelope. He appears to be explaining that it was delivered to his house by mistake. The neighbour shakes his head as he looks at the envelope. The wary neighbour goes indoors and ponders whether to open the envelope. He examines it with a magnifying glass. He smiles, but doesn’t open the envelope. Next day, the neighbour is showing his friend his rose bed. He has planted seedlings under plant pots. As he lifts up one plant pot, his pet cocker spaniel rushes over. The neighbour lifts up the plant pots one by one to show his neighbour the new shoots. He lifts one and reveals a silvery fish sticking up from the soil. The cocker spaniel’s ears lift up in fright. The practical joker looks shocked. His neighbour bursts out laughing. Title: The End. A Cupro Cameo