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Title: DREAM HOLIDAY

Reference number: 3815

Date: 1967

Director: filmed by Frank Marshall

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.24 mins

Description: The film is about a couple who are looking at brochures to choose a holiday. It takes a sarcastic tone as it states how the brochure describes places as idyllic and then shows what is more realistic.

Note: The version now accessible on tape is MUTE. Sound version was found to be missing at November 2007.

Credits: A Marshall Film

Shotlist: [Shotlist timings amended from speed corrected tape, manual control track.]

title Shots of holiday brochures, luxury hotel, gardens, sea beaches, swimming pool (1.19) Hotel Santa Ana, v/o with sarcastic tone, hotel and amenities run down, building site (2.11) beach in Majorca 'Playa Calamayor', sea (2.59) quiet road with horse and cart, busy road , gvs of town and hotels (4.33) beach cafe, gardens (4.48) Building site, man and woman sitting in cafe next to it (4.54) shots of English Pub signs (5.06) British newspapers (5.09) shots of people in sea in bathing costumes (5.35) electric train, boat tour, quiet beach, crowded beach (6.48) outdoor performance featuring dancers, castanets, traditional dress (7.26) shopping centre, "Beers, Wines and Spirits" shop (8.10) customs leaflet (8.17) THE END A Marshall Film (8.24)