Surprise in Store

An amateur fiction film of childhood fun. Traffic moves down a street decorated with Christmas lights. Close-up of a petrol gauge, and a car pulls over opposite a shop (Wylie Hills on Buchanan Street) with a display of toys in the window. The father heads out with a petrol can, leaving the children in the car. Men working in the shop knock off for a break. The children run to the window and gaze at the toys on show. One of the shop's caretakers leaves the arcade, but doesn't close the grill fully. The children sneak into the shop and play with the toys in the toy department. In the staff room, the caretaker falls asleep. A policeman investigates the abandoned car outside, while the boys drive round in toy cars, and the girls blow bubbles. The younger caretaker starts to return... Meanwhile the children enjoy themselves. They try on roller skates, find guns, ride rocking horses and scooters, play in toy cars, and generally run riot! The young caretaker returns with his chips, and finds the older man asleep. He wakes him up and dresses him in a Santa suit. The kids are upstairs playing with toy planes, dolls and prams, with electric race cars... meanwhile, father starts to return with the can of petrol. The children realise someone is coming up the stairs... it's the old man in the Santa suit! They run to hide, can't believe their eyes when they see who it is! They run down the stairs and out of the shop, and are in the car by the time father returns, none the wiser.