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Title: BASIC TRAINING

Reference number: 6612

Date: 1966*

Director: filmed by Wally Trapp

Sound: sound

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 15.30 mins

Description: Amateur film demonstrating a variety of equipment and basic film-making techniques. Rounded off with four comedy shorts.

Credits: cam. Alan Findlater
lighting Jim Turnbull, Les Knott
ed. Wally Trapp
continuity Jack Grant
sd. Francis Robson, Les Knott
p.asst. Peter Taylor, Janette Allan, Jack Allan & ECS members
p. Francis Robson

Shotlist: [shotlisted from speed corrected VHS copy, manual control track]

The 667 Group presents (0.00.06) Basic training (0.00.09) Credits (0.00.35) C/u b&w photographs of soldiers and tanks. (0.00.40) Ext. woods, soldier in bush filming towards camera. (0.00.50) Four men in overcoats walk through woods carrying lots of camera equipment. The men meet the soldier filming and all continue walking. (0.01.37) Mini estate and another car park in Fettes Row and several people enter the Edinburgh Cine Society building. (0.02.28) Int. people seated for demonstration of film making equipment. (0.03.15) Gv's of film making equipment. (0.03.23) C/u yellow 2 Kodachrome II stock boxes, details of film. (0.03.48) Three different types of camera and a tripod. (0.03.59) Viewing and editing equipment (0.04.05) Two types of projector, silent and sound. (0.04.14) Man demonstrating loading of film into camera. (0.05.25) The difference picture quality between hand held and tripod cameras. (0.05.48) Ext. park and pond, further description of camera functions, including lens', continuity, panning shots. (00.07.19) Two men meet by a bench and begin filming with small cameras. Various ways of capturing a shot. Demonstrate camera techniques and further equipment. (0.08.31) Int. Edinburgh Cine Society, three men in a fighting scene. (0.08.48) Man editing a scene on a viewer. (0.09.04) Projector and projection equipment. (0.10.07) Men setting up equipment before filming, including cameras, lighting, continuity. Filming of some scenes. Cups of tea being handed out. (0.11.45) Film Fun (0.11.48) "Double Rung" (0.11.55) Man carrying extra long ladder into small Edinburgh Cine Society cinema, ladder is so long he appears carrying the other end. Shrugs at camera. (0.12.14) 'The Big Deal' (0.12.18) Three workmen in overcoats enter a room and take lots of tools out of bags. Begin measuring walls carefully, hammering nail in wall. C/u Small calendar hung on wall. (0.13.19) 'Super Hate' (0.13.22) Man in cinema barges past man next to him who throws bottle at him, knocking him out. (0.13.29) Klunk! Man lies on the ground. (0.13.34) 'Running Flush' (0.13.38) Three men in dressing gowns waiting outside bathroom. One looks at watch, reads twenty past eight and then knocks door. C/u on watch reads quarter to eight, more knocking. (0.14.21) Large man eventually comes out, carrying a toy boat. (0.14.29) Ext. of outdoor training. Men in overcoats carrying tripods on shoulders as soldiers carry guns. Mock inspection. A man sits in a directors chair as men set up tripods. (0.15.15) Men charge towards camera with tripods. (0.15.30) The End...or the beginning?