There was a brief period of time in British history when girls had begun being allowed to wear trousers to school but before the abolition of corporal punishment, and even if the caning of girls was rare, they were not unheard of - hence this scene could be a reasonably accurate depiction of a real school caning. The uniform looks authentic, the attractive girl looks suitably nervous, the hymn heard in the background suggests she's been told to report to the headmaster's office during school assembly. The office could look a bit more convincing but the caning looks as real as they could make it. No unrealistic removal of clothing or huge numbers of cane strokes and she just takes the punishment because she has no real choice, The headmaster doesn't want to waste time - one of the big attractions of corporal punishment was the efficiency of how little time it took, and he appears to hit her hard enough to make the experience one she'll remember and learn a lesson from. An excellent six of the best across her tightly stretched trouser seat and he takes care to lay the last one on particularly hard as a warning for the future. The absence of dialogue gives us the opportunity to use our own imagination about what she's done wrong.
This will be my final post of 2010 so wishing everyone a Happy Christmas and wonderful 2011.
