PETROL
Full length video
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Title: PETROL
Reference number: 1110
Date: 1957
Director: [filmed by Enrico Cocozza]
Production company: CBC Films
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: fiction
Running time: 2.35 mins
Description:
A man is strangled to death and then dumped in a car in this amateur production of a fictional story.
From Cocozza's notes: 'Made as a short test piece for the above young gentlemen this film has a clean simplicity of form and a conciseness that make it a favourite for me.' See Cocozza papers
Credits: A CBC Film starring Jack Smith and Eddie Cairns.
Shotlist: Credits (0.50); A man stops his Austin Prefect car on a country lane and gets out to inspect the engine (0.57); Another man walks across a field towards the motorist (1.05); He also looks in the car to study the engine, then slams the bonnet shut and strangles the driver. He puts the corpse into the car and drives off (1.52)