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Title: L'ANNIVERSAIRE

Reference number: 0848

Date: 1950

Director: d. Alan Harper

Sponsor: Joint Production Committee of SEFA and SFC

Production company: Campbell Harper Films Ltd.

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 14.00 mins

Description: The first film to be made in Scotland by a company of French players speaking their own language, it tells the story of a mother's birthday.

Teaching notes.

Credits: Francette Vernillat, Francette, Pamela Stirling, Madame Delaroche, Gaston Richer, Monsieur Delaroche, Berthe Brown, La Femme de Menage, Yva Brown, La Secretaire
sc. M A Bera
ph. Henry Cooper
sd. W J Maclean
Supervised for the Secondary Panel by a group of Edinburgh teachers of French. Ballet de Mendlessohn edite par Voix du Monde, Paris. Musique de J P Rameau. Produced by Campbell Harper Films at the Institut Francais, D'Ecosse, Edinburgh

Shotlist: Credits (.28); Unfolding of the story of Mother's birthday. Scenes in the house, at father's office and at the Opera House during a ballet (13.29); ecs (14.00)