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Title: FIRST REELS INTERVIEW: Martin Morrison, Please Stop

Reference number: 8084

Date: 1993c

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.00 mins

Description: Raw interview footage with director Martin Morrison, concerning his short film PLEASE STOP, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television's First Reels scheme.

See also ref. 7799 for complete film.

Credits: [interviewee Martin Morrison

camera Stephen O'Donnell
sd. Stuart Major]

Shotlist: Raw interview footage with director Martin Morrison, concerning his short film PLEASE STOP, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television's First Reels scheme.

Discusses: Documentary filmed while hitch-hiking between Glasgow and London for a week, and recording conversations with the people met along the way. The film voices concerns about Britain as a nation. People were proud to be Scottish as opposed to being proud to be 'British', Britain as 'community'. The film portrayed a Britain in crises, that is the picture that was painted although the film-makers did not expect this. Impromptu approach to film-making. When they set out they had good experiences first two days, as soon as they hit North and Midlands, it got very depressing - they were glad to be finished. The people they encountered had some pretty extreme views eg. racism and fascism. Film-makers did not judge - they let them speak. The aim was that they would not intervene.