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Title: BONGO BUBBLE

Reference number: 1156

Date: 1959

Director: [filmed by Enrico Cocozza]

Production company: TIC [Tongue in Cheek]

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 8.41 mins

Description: An amateur film telling the story of a boy who gets drunk on bubbly and has a fight with a chair.

Mute and sound versions available (same footage, different soundtracks).

Credits: cast Duncan Beaton
cast Bill Bain
Camera crew: Jim Bulloch, David Hunter, Kenzie Baird

Shotlist: title and credits sequence. (1.20) young man in t-shirt and cap drinks champagne and plays a toy piano, blows out candelabra; he staggers to a chair and falls over it a number of times (4.57) finding a set of bongos he strips off his t-shirt and plays them; jumps off a step ladder and crawls towards a low table with more wine (7.15) eight empty bottles on a table; another man walks in to find the young man unconscious, and carries him out (8.09) ecs (8.41)