The Three Suns, Ten Fathoms Deep, Kiko the Kangaroo

Duration: 500 ft.

Year Published: 1940

Creator: Official Films Castle Films

Complete Record: 1. William Tell Overture performed by the Three Suns. An organ player, an accordion player and guitar player. In front of a vine draped backdrop they perform ‘The Anvil Chorus’, and then ‘The Song of India’ while on a revolving platform laden with beautiful women. 2. Submarine Footage. Men descend into sub. Top half of sub visible above water. Periscope seen above water. POV shots of the sub targeting , firing and striking a ship. Interior shots of the sub, several angles of a man peering through a periscope. The ship that has just been hit, explodes and sinks. Cocteau and his mates set up an underwater camera while half-naked. They dive in. Grotto shots, fish , stingrays, great shots of a moss covered sunken ship. Diver climbs into the ship. Huge schools of fish swim around him. He picks up a jug puts it in a basket and sends it to the surface. He then shoots towards the surface. 3. Cartoon, three little bears play and get into mischief. They steal a pie and eat it, they yank down their mother’s laundry off the line. The momma bear is inside cooking and runs outside to see what all the ruckus is. She finds her three little bears in a messy pie covered pile of laundry. She nails up a sign for a mothers helper, an itinerant kangaroo passes by sees the sign and applies for the job. He quickly hits it off with the little rascals by turning himself into a live seesaw, and a diving board. He tires out and falls asleep against the trunk of a tree. The bears runaway while the Kangaroo is asleep and are chased into a lake by three hounds. A turtle carries them safely across the water, but the DOGs and their owner are still hot on their trail. The bears disguise themselves as a tree and elude the DOGs momentarily, but are then chased up a real tree . The hunter shoots off the top of the tree they are hiding in. The kangaroo hears the gunshots, wakes up and bats the DOGs sky high with his tail. The bears dive into Kangaroos’ pouch and are taken back to Mom. Kangaroo does a little dance. The End.