Description: Opening title: Local Colour

Montage of street signs in Essex possibly indicating the area that the film is covering: Dale Gardens, Forest Way, The Glade, Woodland Way, Knighton Drive, Monkhams Lane, Princes Avenue, Inhams Row, Woodside Road, Denehurst Gardens, Belmont Close. Then there is a shot of a pub sign 'The Travellers Friend'. There is then a montage of road traffic signs-which probably suggests 1971 as the Highways Authority and the standardisation of traffic signs in the UK was introduced in that year. The signs shown are: a dual Carriage Way,No U Turn, bear left. There is a day-glo poster advertising a disco at the Thatched House, Epping. Then a collection of product brand signs are show featuring National Garage logo, Pegasus, a hand painted Ind Coope Pub sign, 'The Horse and Well', an Ind Coope pub sign 'Food at the bar'.

An artistic shot showing a reflection caught in the lens of a SLR camera.

Inter-title: Winter Saturday Afternoon

There is a selection of shots showing snow, the first shot is from the house in their garden as the snow flurry settles on their lawn. There are then shots of snow in a forest and snow flakes being shot at night, reflecting against the ink black sky.

Inter-title: Spring is Here!

Dripping water off a corrugated roof, rain drops and puddles on crazy paving, blue sky, clouds and bare trees, the beginnings of cherry blossom, crocuses with a bee feeding from them.

Daisy in fur coat and hat walking along a path through common ground. It is a windy day and she holds onto her hat and we see the wind in the trees, and wind blowing a flower bed with new growth and the water of a bird bath next to the flower bed. There is then a shot of cherry blossom which is now in much fuller bloom than before. There is a shot of a crow at the top of a tall bare tree. The bird then flies off. A van crosses through some common/heathland with a white house in the distance. This is probably North End near Roebuck Lane. The trees are bare but it is a sunny day. There are shots of flowers: gorse, cherry blossom, edelweiss, daffodils, primroses, pink and white heather with a red admiral butterfly on the flower, floral display.

There is shot of Daisy in a white jacket, white gloves and a red knee-length woollen skirt walking in the leafless forest: there are beech trees and leaves on the ground. This is probably Knighton Woods.

We see grey squirrels running in the trees and on branches on the ground. The camera moves down to show young daffodils beginning to flower at the root of the tree.

We then see a mallard duck and it's mate on a reed pond. The ducks are feeding from the pond and people are seen walking their dogs along the edge of the pond in a wood. There is beautiful dappled light shinning through the trees, and the ground is full of shadows of trees and their branches.

Daisy plays with a stick moving leaves on the ground and then walks away from

the camera. She then starts swinging her arms, playing in front of the camera.

Shots of cherry blossom, winter jasmine, daffodils in full bloom and pink hyacinths in a flower bed in their garden.

There are then shots of a traditional lawn mower (the make is 'Makees'), with a rollerball cutting at the edge of their garden lawn and their crazy paving path. Fred James is mowing the close clipped and regular lawn. He is wearing brown casual trousers, brown shoes and a cardigan. We see the grass clippings flying in the air and settling back on the lawn. The flower beds are full of planting and the sun is shinning.

The lawn is full of pigeons after the beautiful lawn is cut, they then fly off. Shots of flower bed with daffodils and winter jasmine and a stone pitcher on a low retaining wall in the flower bed. There is a bird bath and a collection of flower pots with planting in them. There is a rockery bed with daffodils and saxifrage in it and other low planting. There are steps leading up to French windows and the garden looks very well kept and cared for.

A cloud moves against a deep blue sky. Daisy emerges from a subway with chicane barriers at the side of a busy road. There is a Shell garage sign in the distance and a 30 Mile an hour speed limit sign. A Mk II Jaguar, mini, Hillman Huskie, Ford Cortina and Capri pass by on dual carriageway, there is a Gulf garage (now Hills of Woodford) on the opposite side of the road. The trees are bare and it is another sunny day. There is milk float at the side of the road. We see two boys with bicycles riding on a golf course with two golfers with red jumpers in the distance. Daisy in a red skirt, brown suede jacket, white hat and brown shoes, is strolling on the golf course. She wanders down the fairway stepping over mud. She strolls around taking in the air and walks off into the distance and passes by two women with their dogs. She has to navigate the terrain carefully as she is wearing high heel shoes. There are other people in shot a boy with possibly his father. Daisy is then on a muddy patch of ground by a stream with a small low bridge crossing it.

She crosses the bridge and looks at the stream. Daisy then walks by a big pond with a distinctive white clapperboard house with a red tile roof in the distance. This is Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge Chingford. A Morris Minor timber estate car is the forecourt along with an Austin Riley, and a Austin Cambridge with a white stripe down the side. There are timber framed houses in the background as befits the Tudor period in this particular historical area. It is a beautiful bright sunny day with a high sky and bare trees.

The Royal Forest Hotel Chingford, has Tudor ornamentation and Daisy approaches and enters it. Interior of the bar with drinkers, we then see Fred James emerging, hamming up being very drunk as he staggers around and pulls faces.

Daisy is walking along the side of the road walking towards a common that is full of house chestnut tress in bloom with white candle flowers. The branches are luxuriant with leaves and many blooms. A lot of traffic passes through this shot at speed, as a young couple walk by.

Fred James is doing a panoramic shot as the camera moves around the common. We see the wind in the branches of the house chestnut tree. A silhouette shot of a terrier dog looking down and at the camera. An older man in a camel cardigan and brown trousers is by a reed pond with a husky dog, he bends down by the water's edge. We see a young couple with their arms around each other walk by.

The camera is looking into a shop window with pink plastic head and shoulders models wearing a variety of wigs.

Daisy in a red suit walks into the forest and leaps across the stream in a dappled glade surrounding by beech trees with green leaves.

Daisy wanders around taking in the natural beauty of the forest. Fred James films the vegetation under the trees which is of ferns and various woodland flowers and plants. As the trees are now in leaf the forest appears dark and lush which contrasts with the sunlight hitting the tops of the trees. It is a lovely contrast of light and shade. The ground is a lattice work of shadows. Daisy comes across a pond with female ducks on it, a sheep dog is enjoying itself paddling amongst the reeds and children are fishing from a rock. One of the young boys has long hair and loon trousers whilst the other is wearing jeans.

A dog can be seen sniffing the ground and two young girls can be seen walking amongst the trees. A large German Shepherd dog comes up to Daisy who strokes it and admires it. There are further shots of foliage and Pyracantha hedge full of orange berry clusters. A hydrangea bush comes into view, both these shrubs are in their garden against a white wall. Leaves are fluttering in the breeze. Two schoolgirls walk around the area and two girls on bikes cycle on the streets. It is summertime as the young girls are in summer dresses and have bare arms. A white Renault car is seen turning into the street.

We move to an interior shot showing an egg timer with red sand and then a flower vase with cut Pyracantha blooms waiting to be put into it. There are apples by the vase perhaps from the garden. Daisy is shown cutting stems and arranging flowers, mostly roses in vases. She is wearing a wonderful white and brown patterned summer dress which looks heraldic but is representing foliage. She has a very small elegant gold band watch on her wrist and a large diamond ring on her wedding finger. She appears to be in a studio or outhouse, with a vice on the worktop.

We are back in the wood which is beautifully shot, there are evergreen trees and dappled light hitting brown leaves. A dog comes into view among the shafts of light. A father and child are with the dog. Daisy in a cream summer suit walks through the forest and she looks at plants and picks some ferns. She is reflected in the pond as she peers into the water. The trees are reflected in the pond which looks full of greenery.

A man and boy are fishing from the side of the pond surrounded by reeds and vegetation. There is a close up of the reeds moving in the wind, the water in the pond looks very still and stagnant. There are lily pads on the pond with oak trees and acorns in shot. A boy on a chopper bike comes into view.

Autumnal foliage is shown on the horse chestnut trees. Traffic passes by the side of the common and the ground looks brown as do the leaves. Rain clouds are shot against the sun and the vegetation is moving in the wind. Leaves blow across the ground. We are in the James garden where Daisy in a red house coat brown hat and gardening gloves is cutting foliage into a dustbin. She plays around with a cut bloom. Daisy wears an artistic velvet hat such as worn by Rembrandt in his self portraits. Fred James is helping to cut up branches into the dustbin.

Many gulls in the sky can be seen as smoke arises from a bonfire in their garden presumably from the cuttings we saw them collecting. The bonfire is very smoky. Daisy in a white jacket is back in the forest, she is walking towards the camera and she is picking holly from the wood.

An older couple with a white scottie dog and a grandchild in a pushchair are seen across a pond whilst a woman in a duck blue coloured jacket and a teenage daughter with long hair walk through the forest.

End Title Local Colour.