This first part of the drama made by members of the Tees-side Cine Club. Filmed partly at Marton Hall near Middlesbrough the story follows an older woman who participates in an experiment that will rejuvenate her into a young woman. Title: Tees-side Cine Club. Title: 1935 Production. Credit:  Scenario & Direction – C Roeder. Credit: Assistant Director & Film Editor – W. Shaw. Credit: Camera – W. Maxwell. Credit: Make–Up – R. Ayres. Title: Quest for Youth. The film opens with...

This first part of the drama made by members of the Tees-side Cine Club. Filmed partly at Marton Hall near Middlesbrough the story follows an older woman who participates in an experiment that will rejuvenate her into a young woman. Title: Tees-side Cine Club. Title: 1935 Production. Credit:  Scenario & Direction – C Roeder. Credit: Assistant Director & Film Editor – W. Shaw. Credit: Camera – W. Maxwell. Credit: Make–Up – R. Ayres. Title: Quest for Youth. The film opens with the title 'Quest for Youth' appearing on a magazine cover being read by an older woman. A younger man and woman enter the room where the woman is reading. The young woman kisses the older woman in greeting. Title: I wish I could come – if only I was young again. The film cuts to a group of men sitting in a circle in deep discussion. Title: Youth That’s What They Want – Now I Can Give Them Youth & Beauty. Title: You Can’t Change Human Nature Professor. The group of men continue in discussion. Title: I Will Prove It. Bring One of Your Patients. The leader of the group, the professor, shows the others a piece of paper with chemical formulae written on it. In large figures the number ‘595’ is written across the diagrams. He brings the attention of the group to another section on the page, again written in large figures and letters; ‘596 antidote for 595’. The members of the group get up to leave. They shake each other’s hand. The film to cuts to a laboratory. A male laboratory technician attends to chemical apparatus on a workbench. Close up of large bottles containing liquid. Other laboratory assistants work on other pieces of equipment. A female lab technician brings to the attention of the male technician an item of equipment with which she has been working. The professor comes into the laboratory to talk to the male technician. The technician transfers a small amount of liquid from a glass flask to a small bottle. The bottle is labelled '595', and the professor examines it closely. The professor then goes over to the female technician, who gives the professor a glass beaker. The beaker is filled with a number of test tubes. He examines them and takes one from the beaker. He takes the test tube and the small bottle of ‘595’ away with him. Back in his office, the professor puts a small amount of '595' onto a glass specimen slide, and examines under a microscope or long lens. The film cuts to a large garden, where a younger and the older women are sitting in deck chairs. [The location of this sequence appears to be the rear of Marton Hall]. A man approaches the two women. He is walking from the direction of the hall followed by two women and a man. They wave at the women in the deck chairs. A woman intercepts them near the hall and greets the trio. She beckons to them to walk over to the two women in deck chairs. The group exchange greetings then the young people walk off and leave the older women. The film cuts to a car drawing up outside the front entrance of the hall. Two men get out of the car. A third man greets them and the whole group walks out of shot. One of the men from the car is one of the doctors [Dr Roberts] who was seen previously at the professor’s meeting. He greets the older lady in the deck chair. Title: Youth That’s What They Want. Title: Now I Can Give Them Youth & Beauty. Title: Now I Can Give Them Youth & Beauty. Title: I Will Prove It, Bring One Of Your Own Patients. Title: In Three Months You Can Be Young Again. The last intertitle above is superimposed over the doctor talking to one of the older women in the deck chair. She sits forward suddenly looking very eager… Superimposed intertitle. Title: We’ll Go To The Professors Tomorrow. The doctor gets up to leave. The woman gets up with the aid of a walking stick. The two walk off towards the hall. The picture cuts to the woman now indoors resting in a lounge chair. A ghostly younger version of herself rises up out of her body, then comes back to re-enter her older self. The woman wakes up. The film cuts to the group of young people who left the hall earlier on a beach [possibly Saltburn] throwing a beach ball to each other. They splash about in the sea and play leap frog. They get dressed and leave the beach clambering over rock pools and boulders [walking away from the camera they seem to be heading towards Huntcliff near Saltburn]. A couple lag behind, they engage in a passionate embrace. The film cuts to the older lady waking from her sleep. Immediately in front of her is a tray set for afternoon tea. She pours herself a cup of tea. A second younger woman enters the room and puts her jacket on a chair. The older woman pours her a cup of tea and they chat together. The younger woman grabs her jacket and walks out of the room leaving the older woman in the room nibbling at biscuits from the tea tray. She puts her head back on the armchair. The film cuts to one of the young men seen earlier… Title:I Wish You Could Come With Us. She replies… Title:I May Be Able To Soon. The film cuts to another meeting of doctors at the professors. They are in discussion, when Doctor Roberts enters with the older woman. He introduces her to the professor. Two of the professor’s colleagues leave the room leaving the woman, Doctor Roberts and the professor. The professor talks to the woman while studying her. A lab assistant or nurse enters the room. She takes the older woman away. Doctor Roberts and the professor are in the laboratory with the older woman lying on an operating table. The professor administers anaesthetic. The lab assistant/nurse hands the professor a small bottle from a small cabinet. The bottle is labelled ‘595’. He fills a syringe with some of its contents. Dr Roberts looks on his patient as the proceedings progress. The professor injects the woman with ‘595’. A nurse/lab assistant switches on a powerful lamp which covers the length of the operating table. The light is lowered towards the woman on the table. The assistant adjusts the intensity of the light. The assembled doctors and assistants look on at the woman’s face. Gradually changes come over her face, she starts to look younger. She wakes up. The lab technician raises the lamp assembly. The film moves back to the professors office, where the professor, Dr Roberts and the now younger woman sit and talk. Back at home in the hall a younger man and woman appear to be waiting. The rejuvenated woman enters the room. The two young relatives are astonished at the transformation. Title: Now I Can Join In Your Pleasures. The film cuts to scene where a strong wind is blowing through the trees. Cut to a tennis court where two young men and two young women, part of the group seen earlier, are about to start a mixed doubles tennis match. One of the young girls is the woman who has regained her youth. The game progresses. The rejuvenated woman seems very bad tempered as she misses returns. The other woman tries to help by demonstrating the technique she should use to return the ball. She tries again and misses again. She throws her racquet down in anger and frustration and storms off across the court. She explains to other woman across the net… Title: I Have Some Shopping To Do, Lucy Will Take My Place. The now youthful woman wanders off the court but the game continues. The film cuts to the interior of a café where a smart young man is sitting at a table sipping a cup of tea and reading a newspaper. The café is busy and not many seats are available. A member of the café staff shows a young woman to one of the few free seats, opposite the young man at his table. The young woman is the rejuvenated woman. The waitress brings some cakes for the young woman. She starts chatting with the young man opposite, eventually they get up to leave. The young man and woman leave the café together. The film cuts to the young man getting out of his car outside the hall. He lets the woman out of the passenger side of the car. They talk briefly and the woman writes something in a notebook with the young man’s pen. She gives the pen back and puts the notebook back in her handbag. They say goodbye, and she walks into the house and into the living room. A younger couple watch as the rejuvenated woman opens a large package. She opens it and pulls out a new dress with a flower pattern on it. The reels ends with the young woman appears to disapprove and the rejuvenated woman looks annoyed.  [Reel 2] - The Experiment Must Go On This second and final part of the drama made by members of the Tees-side Cine Club. The female protagonist who has been made young again becomes unwell. While the professor says that 'the experiment must go on' she is given a cure and is 'restored' to her original age concedes that you are only young once in a lifetime. The reel begins with the female protagonist opening a door into a living room and the smart young gentleman from the café seen in reel one entering. He appears to be calling on the young woman, formerly an elderly woman, to take her out. She is wearing the new dress she bought. The young man admires it. After a short conversation she collects her jacket and they walk outside to the young man’s car. They drive off down the driveway. The film cuts to a group of people playing cards around a small card table. The young man seen previously appears to win the game. Then another cut to a party, where the same group are sitting around a table drinking and smoking, wearing party hats, playing with balloons and other party paraphernalia. The young man shares young woman's drink, and both of them appear to be drunk. The party gets wilder. Then they get up to leave, staggering around. The young woman arrives back at home and enters the living room seen at the beginning of the film. She appears unwell. She crosses the room and leans against a china cabinet. A woman looks up as though she has heard a noise. A man enters the living room room and finds the rejuvenated woman who has just returned from the party, collapsed on the floor. Both he and the woman alerted by a noise approach the woman to find out what’s happened. They manage to get her onto a chair. The film cuts to a bedroom. The young woman is in bed where her doctor (Doctor Roberts who attended the operation at the professor’s) is in attendance. The doctor explains to a second woman her condition and how she must be looked after. She attends to the comfort of the young woman. Back in the living room, the doctor explains to a third young woman and another young man what has happened. Title: The excitement is too much her [sic]. He continues with his explanation. Title: Her body is young but her nerves are old. Title: Her body will outlive her brain. We now see the young woman out of bed sitting in a chair in the living room. She is still unwell and holds her head in her hands. A young man puts his arm around her to comfort her. Title: Whatever can we do for her; The young man continues to talk to her. Title: I will go and see the professor; We see him approach a doorway and press the doorbell. Inside the young man appears in deep conversation with the professor. Title: The experiment must go on; The young man gets up to leave, he says goodbye to the professor. Title: The experiment must go on; Back at the young woman's home the young man explains to another young man what the professor has said. Title – The experiment must go on. The young man’s explanation continues. He then looks pensive, rubbing his chin. The film cuts to the professor who is at home reading a newspaper. He seems to be disturbed by noise. He walks towards a door. He looks outside, in the meantime a mysterious figure has gained entry to his house, the figure hides behind a curtain. The professor, still outside is trying to find the cause of the disturbance. Eventually he returns inside. The mysterious figure emerges from behind the curtain. He goes to a bureau and goes through its contents. He writes down something from a ledger then puts the ledger back. He moves to a laboratory and switches on a lamp. He takes a chemical bottle from a storage shelf in the lab. He mixes some chemicals together. He corks a small bottle and shakes the contents.He switches the lamp off and leaves. Back at the house another young woman seems distraught and she cradles her head on her arms. The mysterious figure who broke into the professors appears to have been her friend and he enters the room and speaks to her. Title: I got this from the professor’s; He shows the small bottle to her. Upstairs the doctor and an older woman are in attendance with the young woman who has undergone the rejuvenation treatment The doctor leaves a bottle of medicine. The older woman and the other young woman appear with a glass of water to be taken with the medicine. The doctor and older woman leave the bedroom. The young woman pours a measure of the medicine into another glass. She then adds all of the contents of the small glass bottle which was taken from the professor’s lab. She puts the glass bottle labelled 596 on the bedside table. She gives the concoction to the young woman who is ill. She falls back onto the pillows still fatigued. Another young woman enters the living room. The young man greets her, she looks worried. Title: You’d better go for Doctor Roberts. The young man leaves the room. He returns later with the doctor. The older woman is attending to the young woman in bed. She seems to be asleep. The doctor notices the small bottle labelled ‘596’ on the bedside cabinet and seems to enquire as to why it is there. The young woman remains asleep. The film cuts to the young man who entered the professor’s lab is at the wheel of their car. The doctor gets into the car. The young man gets out of the car goes into the house to see the other young woman. He sits next to her talking to her and then gives her a passionate kiss. A fade in and the young woman who was ill is now sitting in a chair reading a book, however she now appears much older. The young man and the young woman approach her. The young woman asks her what she is reading. The young woman sits next to her and puts her arm around her. The young man says something to her. The response seems to be from the now recovered but older woman Title: Go and enjoy yourselves you will only be young once. The young woman gets up, and she leaves the room with the young man. The convalescent continues with her book. The film fades out. Title: End Title Tees-side Cine Club.