PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU WATCH THIS FILM!
This is not a new episode of Show & Tell. Not yet, I have been stupidly busy and the Summer holidays have been very distracting to say the least BUT here is the very first ever short film I made, way way back in the mid 1990's. It is called I WAS CATHERINE THE GREAT'S STABLE BOY and yes, it's about the (in)famous, probably apocryphal romantic liaison between the Empress of Russia and a male horse but told from the point of view of the poor stable boy charged with setting the whole affair up. It's not even 5 minutes long and it was shot on 35mm film! Amazingly, the voiceover of the Stable Boy was done by none other than Logan Roy himself, the fantastic Brian Cox!
I'm putting this up on my channel now, a.) because it's a fun little film that I'm still very proud of, I knew absolutely nothing when I made it and it was a great learning experience and b.) because it acts as a good way into the next, proper episode of Show & Tell, which hopefully will be finished in a couple of weeks. Hopefully. I won't say any more and spoil the surprise but if you watch this film now then a great anecdote in the next episode will make more sense. Enjoy.