The first half of Ann Wolff's BFI-funded short sees the eponymous captain (played by O'Connor) enacting the bizarre actions of the verse, chewing his beard, bouncing through a window and "frowning at a passing ceiling". In the second half, a curious interplay involving a carrot unfolds at a railway station.

• Eileen Colgan
• Philip O’Connor
• Quentin Crisp
• Martina Mayne
• Peter Hurst-Smith
• Martin Canter