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Title: BRIDE AND GROOM

Reference number: 1937

Date: 1956

Director: filmed by the Grasshopper Group

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 7.51 mins

Description: Surrealistic view of the "Honeymoon couple", interrupted by salesmen, consumer goods, jealousy, anger and infidelity. [Award winner in the 1957 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.]

The Grasshopper Group had won the Grand Prix in the previous year at the Amateur Cannes Film Festival, for an animation "The Battle of Wangapore", also directed by John Daborn.

A 'pixilated' film, also an outstanding entry in the 1956 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.

Credits: sc. Robin Prentice, John Daborn
m. Conrad Wagner
ph. Bill Archer
ph. Rydal Love
lighting Tony Collins
stills John Kerby
make-up continuity Audrey Vayro
cast Pamela Daborn, Bob Godfrey, Richard Simmonds, Richard Mitchell
d. John Daborn

"A film distributed by the Scottish Central Film Library A division of the Scottish Council for Educational Technology Glasgow"

Shotlist: Credits (0.14); Picture of the bride and groom (0.33); Credits (0.52); Surrealistic view of the "honeymoon couple", interrupted by salesmen, consumer goods, jealousy, anger and infidelity. Once the salesman has been ejected, taking away all these vices, the young couple live happily ever after in their private world. (7.47); The End (7.51)