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Title: HIDE FOR SIMON, a

Reference number: 4060

Date: 1962 *

Director: filmed by E.G. Cairns

Sponsor: Educational Films of Scotland

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.28 mins

Description: Story of a young boy and a man who go bird watching and build a "hide" so they can get closer to the birds.

'A Hide for Simon' was entered for the 1961 Scottish Amateur Film Festival in the educational category but did not pick up an award.

Shotlist: Title superimposed over picture. (0.10) Shot of a man walking across a field, he stops by a river to talk to a boy who was standing in the river, they both sit down and the man brings a fixture for a tent from his bag, the boy examines the fixture (2.00); the man walks away carrying rods and a tripod (?) (2.13) shot of the man and boy together, man using binoculars to look at a bird (2.41) man and boy stop to look at a nest, c/u of eggs (2.56) man pacing across field (3.06) man and boy laying out rods, hammering rods into the ground, putting the tent together. A hide for watching animals (6.06) man and boy lying on the ground looking through their binoculars watching a bird, c/u of bird (6.56) man and boy walking -blank- (7.14) man and boy moving the "hide" further down the field (8.12) c/u of bird (8.17) boy inside tent, man walking across the field (8.53) shot of field and trees (8.59) c/u of bird (9.14) man with binoculars watching the bird (9.21) c/u of bird (9.32) shot of the hide, man opening the 'hide' (9.59) taking the tent down, walking across field (10.28)