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Title: DIABOLICAL LIBERTY, a

Reference number: 0333

Date: 1967*

Director: d. Douglas Gray

Sponsor: Royal Bank of Scotland

Production company: Park Film Studios

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 20 mins

Description: Film highlights material benefits that can be gained if wages are paid through the bank.

See also ref. 0334 A RARE TEAR.

Credits: sc. Tom Wright
sd. Ken Andrew
produced for the Royal Bank of Scotland [by Park Film Studios]
cast: David Kinnaird, Willie Ross, Paul Young, Jan Wilson, Alex Jamieson, John Grieve, and a Royal Bank manager.

Shotlist: Credits (.07); Shots of engineering factory workers clocking in (.23); Letter to all employees on notice board. Dave, Willie and a young lad read about the new introduction of paying wages into a bank account (1.46); The three consult shop steward on the shop floor (4.36); They go into a bank and are taken into the manager's office. The manager, a Mr. Johnston, explains the advantages of having a bank account. His advice is illustrated by shots of school sports, family sorting out bills in their living-room, people with-drawing money from bank, shopping centre in East Kilbride, view of Grangemouth's stacks and chimneys, a mobile bank in rural village (12.10); Outside the manager's office, Dave and his friends meet an old pal who tells them of his recent holiday (13.21); Shots of same in Switzerland, changing his money in a Swiss bank, on a train and a bus climbing up into the Alps, shots of Alpine scenery, view from a chair lift, shot of the Reichenbach Falls (16.20); Inside the bank (16.43) Dave goes home, sits down to tea while his wife does the ironing (18.18); Willie and his wife look at new fridges, the young lad looks at a car (18.42); Dave and his wife in the kitchen (19.04); ecs (19.25)