Bathing Beauties of 19º 35" East

Here it is — footage which all Jerusalem awaits, that may yet take the movie world by storm with its innovative camera techniques and generally Andy Warhol Underground Style applied to unusual subject matter. In it we see the Bishop of Oxford and a Junior Colleague trying to sink in the Dead Sea. We conclude that this is no place to go baptizin’. It was strange indeed to float so high as to be able to hold a camera above the briny and film.

You will notice, and I hope appreciate, Busby Berkeley rotary effects, an occasionally vertical focal plane, and a 1960’s surfin’ theme applied to an inland lake of battery acid with 2 cm waves. This battery acid is said to cure Psoriasis — or perhaps cause psoriasis. Soon we’ll find out which, anyway. Those who market its mud tell us that their product reverses ageing. Therefore John and I only stayed for half an hour or so, because neither of us particularly wanted to return to the UK as a baby...