Package holidays to the South of France 1950's England. View from the driver's seat of a car passing through a tunnel, and arriving at London Heathrow airport. Red double-decker buses visible on the road approach to the airport. A man gets out of a taxi and pays the driver. Thomas Cook Promotional Crowds at the airport watch an aircraft landing. An Air France 'Caravelle' lands, taxis, and stops on the runway. People boarding the Caravelle, with a flight attendant or stewardess in uniform. The airplane taxis and moves onto the runway. Inside the aeroplane, a flight attendant offers candy to the passengers. Shot of an airplane meal, and of a passenger drinking wine. A man, visibly drowsy, falls into a slumber. Nice, France. A man (the same one who fell asleep on the plane) in a red, MG open-topped sports car drives along the Promenade des Anglais. He passes a gendarme as he turns (against the direction of traffic) down a one-way street. A woman driving a motorised scooter approaches the camera; cut to shot of the woman and her scooter on the road, in front of the (stopped) red car, following a presumed road accident. She is in tears. The man in the car smiles, gets out of his car, and looks at the woman, all the while continuing to smile. The woman is viewed sitting on the ground beside her moped and an overturned basket of groceries and flowers. The man attempts to gather the groceries, but the woman shakes her fist at him and throws an egg at the man, which breaks on, and runs down, his bare chest. The man looks unhappy, but the woman laughs. The man looks at his chest resignedly, and then he too begins to laugh. Both laugh, while sitting on the ground, and the woman playfully breaks a long breadstick/baguette over the man's head. A crowd of onlookers appears perplexed. While both the man and the woman continue to laugh, the man picks up some egg and places his (egg-covered) hand on the woman's head, which is resting on his leg. They continue to laugh, while sitting in the middle of the road. The man picks the scooter up off the ground and tries to kick-start it, while the woman and the children look on. They both get in his car and he drives off, leaving the onlookers at the scene of the incident. Tracking shots of the Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France. Shot of the red convertible sports car and other cars driving, with palm trees lining the median strip, pedestrians on the pavements, parked cars along the sides of the road and a policeman (gendarme). The man and woman arrive at Nice harbour in the red car. A large white sailing vessel is in the background. The man and woman get out of the car and walk toward fishing boats and fisherman on the sandy beach. Panning shot of the buildings lining the harbour and fishermen walking on a boat in the harbour. View of the coastal road. Views of the man and woman in the red car, passing through a tunnel, driving along a winding road, through dry (-looking), white-rocked terrain. Driver's view of the winding road ahead. The car pulls into a town square, and the man and woman get out of the car. The camera pans to a stone fortress/castle high above the town. The camera focuses on a clocktower next to the fortress. Shot of the Mediterranean coastline, far below; the camera then pans up to a nearby mountain top. The man and the woman are seen smiling and motioning with their arms toward something which has caught their eye. The man puts his arm around the woman's shoulders and draws her nearer so that she is leaning against him. They run up stairs, away from the camera; the woman tugs on the man's shirt from behind. Clocktower, panning down to the man and the woman walking. Man picks a rose from a rosebush and the woman smells it. They are viewed from behind walking up sloping, narrow stone streets. They inspect scarves for sale at a small stall. Shot of a hand-cranked music box from the mid nineteenth century. Paintings and pottery. The woman stands beside a cherub-shaped water spout dug into a wall. A tall, four-pronged cactus plant. Close-up of a small cactus plant. Landscape of a variety of cactus plants of varying size growing in rocky terrain. The man and woman, flanked by a flagpole flying the French flag on one side and a cactus plant on the other, stand at the top of a stony outcrop. Panning shot, from a rocky landscape with winding paths, cactuses and small stone huts, to the Mediterranean coastline far below. Camera pans across rocky hillsides dotted with houses. The man and woman lean against a stone wall. A palm tree; camera then pans to a balcony with a woman on it. A woman in nightclothes, leaning on an iron railing on the balcony of a building. A woman in profile with the Mediterranean Sea in the background. Cannes, France.

• published: 07 Dec 2017
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