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Title: SPINNING WHEEL, the

Reference number: 5852

Date: 1951

Director: filmed by Adam H. Malcolm

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 4.11 mins

Description: Short film designed to accompany the song "The Spinning Wheel" by Delia Murphy. It depicts a young woman escaping her grandmother's croft to be with her lover.

Awards won: Specially commended by Amateur Cine World , Scottish Amateur Film Festival 1952 prize winner, Highly Commended at the 1951 SAAC Festival and won the Lizars Trophy at the Edinburgh Cine Society 1951 competition.

Made to accompany an audio recording of "The Spinning Wheel", a song by Delia Murphy. Accompanying sound also preserved at the National Library of Scotland Moving Image and Sound Collections..

Credits: act. Anna Mathieson, act. John MacLennan, act. Mary Ramsay
ph. L.A. Butler

[Cragfoot Films present
Eileen - Anna Mathieson
Lover - John MacLennan
Granny - Mary Ramsay]

Shotlist: [please note this copy has no sound - although the Archive does hold separate master sound elements for preservation]

list of awards won Amateur Cine World, This is to Certify that this film has been Specially Commended by Amateur Cine World and Scottish Amateur Film Festival 1952 Prize Winning Film, This Film was highly commended at the 1951 SAAC Festival. This Film "The Spinning Wheel" was awarded The Lizars Trophy at the Edinburgh Cine Society 1951 Competition. Exts of man whispering at Croft door (1.30) ints of girl spinning while her blind grandmother knits (3.07) the grandmother falls asleep and the girl climbs out the croft window (3.50) exts of girl and man, arm in arm, intercut with shots of the spinning wheel (4.11)