Clip description
Mrs Williams (Rhondda Findleton) tells her other boarders and her children, Cherry (Rebecca Smart) and Sam (Steven Scott-Young) that a new boarder is moving into the house. Later in the evening as Cherry is wearing her pretend barrister’s wig in her bedroom, her mother comes in and introduces Mr Edmund (Robert Grubb). At breakfast the next morning Mr Edmund surprises them all by speaking Armenian to Mr Bolakian (Norry Constantian) and Mr Bolakian (Harry Constantian). Sam is very suspicious of this new boarder and, with Cherry, follows him, but he mysteriously disappears.
Curator’s notes
Mr Edmund is introduced with a sense of mystery. This is particularly well done with the breakfast scene which begins from Mr Edmund’s point of view, and is further enhanced with the sound track. The boarding house interior captures a sense of a by-gone time by even though it is a contemporary (1980s) story.