Summary

Item title reads - King Neptune comes ashore from the vasty deep - in the cause of charity - to initiate all and sundry, including the Pathe Gazette, into secret and very mysterious rites of Noble and Ancient Order of the Bath Weymouth, Dorset

Intertitle - 'tried and proved' M/S of Neptune sat with his Queen, officers hold a sailor by the arms, one man shouts at him

Intertitle - 'passing the doctor (after a pill and generous dose of vinegar and sea water!)' M/S of the sailor lying on the table, the mixture is poured down his throat through a giant funnel while Neptune looks on

Intertitle - 'prepared' L/S of the sailor in a chair on the boat, people stand around and watch A man in white uses a giant comb and scrubbing brush to brush the man's hair, Neptune joins in M/S of him with his head back, shaving foam is put on with a giant brush A huge cut-throat razor is sharpened by two men M/S as the man in white uses the razor to 'shave' the man

Intertitle - 'Thrown to the bears and then for ever one of Ye Olde Sea Dogs' The sailor is lifted up and thrown backwards into a pool with other men who push him under

Intertitle - 'I do hereby command that all my Subjects, including mermaids, sharks, dogfish, seaslugs, lobsters and even seasquirts, abstain from eating, tickling or poking Charlie at any of my initiates'

M/S as Neptune reads this from a big piece of paper, he is surrounded by people including the man with the giant razor and comb C/U of Neptune's face as he reads