Can I Have A Dragon, Please?
MPEG-4 Colour Sound 1981 11:23

Summary: This film is an overall look at the art and technique of tattooing. It includes an historical look at tattoos among different cultures, the process of tattooing and the removal of tattoos. The social aspects of the tattoo are also examined.
Title number: 22088
LSA ID: LSA/29687
Description: 00:00 – 01:52 Title card with ‘Can I Have a Dragon Please?’ written across a man’s back with a picture of a dragon. Photos of tribal tattoos and the primitive tools used to create them. More photos of people with tattoos, as the voiceover explains the origin and history of tattoos.
01:52 – 02:29 Pan across a wall of tattoo designs to Dennis Cockell, a tattoo artist.
02:29 – 06:24 Dennis tattoos a flame on to a woman’s breast. He explains the process from sketching out the design to drawing the outline and finally adding in the colour.
06:24 – 06:55 Shots of a torso and arms covered in tattoos. Voiceover explains that artists sometimes cover amateur work.
06:55 – 07:43 Shots of Cathy sitting in a rocking chair with a cat. She talks about her experience with getting tattoos surgically removed. We see close ups on her arms with scarring on them. Man sat at a desk explaining the various forms of tattoo removal before the invention of laser removal.
07:43 – 08:52 A woman operates a laser removal tool to remove a tattoo from a man’s arm. The camera slowly zooms in on the tattoo and we see it being removed. Wider shot of the man and the woman, then close up again on the tattoo. Voiceover of the man at the desk explains how the process of laser removal works.
08:52 – 10:34 Pan up from the feet to the neck of a heavily tattooed man. Zoom out on a heavily tattooed chest. Various shots and photos of tattooed people and their bodies.
10:34 – 11:23 Credits. Credits are written on people’s bodies like tattoos.
Credits: Susan Anne Lloyd (Director); Richard Thomas Yonck (Producer); Arturo Flores (Camera operator); Eniar Bergue Egeland (Editor)
Keywords: Tattoo
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