Kes

This 1969 British film includes scenes set in a tough city comprehensive school in the north of England. In this sequence a group of boys are caned on both hands for smoking. The line-up includes an innocent first-former who has been sent to the headmaster with a message and is forced by the older boys to secrete their contraband cigarettes and matches in his trouser pockets. When all the assembled boys are told to empty their pockets the pathetic junior, who is to shy to speak up to the overbearing headmaster, is deemed to be an illicit smoker and is caned along with the guilty pupils - much to his distress. The corporal punishment seen in Kes is reputedly genuine - not faked for the camera. It certainly looks convincing.