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Title: IT WASN'T ME MISTER

Reference number: 2540

Date: 1974c

Director: d. Michael Alexander

Sponsor: Educational Films of Scotland

Production company: Pelicula Films Ltd.

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 25.42 mins

Description: A dramatic description of a youngster taken on his first shoplifting spree by an older boy and both ending up in trouble with the police.

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Credits: sc. Jack Gerson
comm.s. John Young
prod. man. Iain Smith
cam. ass. Michael Coulter
ed. Patrick Higson
sd. Louis Kramer
ph. Mark Littlewood

Shotlist: Credits (0.15) gvs parents with their son at the Children's Panel, Glasgow (1.51) int. shots of stores showing how people shoplift (5.09) c/u of security devices in shops intercut with shots of two young boys shoplifting in Frasers, Buchanan Street, Glasgow (9.49) c/u boys being arrested and being driven away in a police van (11.30) int. shots of boys being charged in police station (14.37) int. shot of two boys in prison cells (15.55) shot of parents collecting son from police station (18.33) shots of youth having his fingerprints taken and taken to lockfast area of Sheriff Court (21.13) shot of youth at the Summary Proceedings in front of the Sheriff (23.33) shot of boy in front of Children's Panel (24.49) ecs (25.42)f