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TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS T9669 SOMETHING SIMP~E

featuring
Sill f'F.DRIC HAUDWICiiE JIUMY LYDON with
FIU:DDIE BARTHOLOMEW CHARLI<JY CHASR

Try as he might, Charley cannot keep himself out of trouble, even when he
merely takes time off to repeat, very quietly, a few of his childhood nursery
rhymes. Unfortunately, he chooses the wrong time and definitely the wrong
place to calm his shattered nerves, and as a consequence finds himself once
again up against the law .... His attempts to prove his innocence in all that
transpires only lands him in deeper water. However, Love provides the way out
as you will see.

T9673 I REEL
SKY PIRATES
A GetJrge Pal l•uppetoon

The sleepy little aerodrome is brought to life at the sound of reveille and
it is with the greatest effort that the planes manage to take the air. The flight
is attacked by bandits and all but one are destroyed. The survivor manages
to get to the palace, where he unfolds his tale, and very soon the royal planes
take to the skies and proceed to destroy the bandits in their hideout. The
Private Tutor Arnold, invited to bullies, is roasted by a fire until he realistic antics of these puppet characters are delightful to watch.
become Headmaster of Rugby faints. later, Tom directs opera-
School, is persuaded by his wife to tions from his sick bed, which ends
accept the post. On arrival he tells with a fight with Flashman. Dr. T9671 I REEL
the pupils that he is going to give Arnold hears about the roasting, Tom KILLERS OF THE INSECT VVORLD
them self-governing opportunities, is whipped for fighting and Flashman
and warns them that lying and des- is expelled. Tom is blamed for the
tructive behaviour will not be toler- expulsion and, when his friends turn A First Class Docutnentary
ated. A number of expulsions take against him, decides to run away.
place and the doctor's severe discip- He writes to his father, but is per-
line is condemned by parents and suaded to change his mind. He then
masters. However, he is encour- borrows Sally's cart and tries to stop A .pictorial study of the battle for
aged by his wife and Squire Brown, the mail coach and retrieve his letter. survival amongst the denizens of the
who sends his son Tom to Rugby. Tom returns to school to find East insect world. It dramatically des-
Tom and East become friends and facing expulsion for theft of the cart. cribes how the life of one species is
frequent a sho.p run by Sally and her A public assembly is held for the ex- dependent upon the capture and
niece, who becomes fond of Tom. pulsion but Tom, tormented by guilt, killing of another type and how that
At the school the younger boys are takes the blame, he also talces a lick- hunter is itself hunted down. The
forced to act as "fag" for the older ing, but is not expelled for having little known activities of these insects
ones, led by the bully, Flashman. proved himself a man. Tom and East are brought to light in this most
• Inter-dormitory and free-for-all fights .avoid each other but eventually wonderful and exciting "survival of
take place and Tom, caught by the "shake on it" on graduation. the fittest" story.

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