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Title: MOUNTAIN BIKE VIDEO, a

Reference number: 12404

Date: 1998

Director: filmed by Tim Courtney & Alister Mackay

Sound: sound

Original format: unknown

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 52.24 mins

Description: Two-part montage of mountain bike tricking across dirt track courses, architectural obstacles and a wooded downhill course near Inverness. Non-cycling interludes experiment with stop frame effects and imploding abandoned TV's.

Credits: YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING
MASTOID MALCOLM MULATO AS ADAM GATCOMBE
HAIRY HARRY HEIMAN AS ALISTER COSSER
ENIMA EDDIE AS GRAHAM JOHNSTONE
AND KENNETH SCOTT AS A WHINGIE MOANING BASTARD
ALSO STARRING
ALISTER MACKAY
NEIL JOHNSTONE
ALISTER LEES

METALLICA FEUL
BLUR SONG 2
PEARL JAM BRAIN OF J
NIRVANA DOWNER
METALLICA DIE DIE MY AND STONE COLD CRAZY
THANKS TO TIMS DAD AND
THE GUY WITH THE TRAILER
AND THE PEOPLE WHO DUMPED THE TVS AND RADIO
ALSO THANKS TO IAN PHILIPS FOR BEING CRAP AND MAKING US LOOK GOOD
AND YES WE CAN SPELL PEOPLE

Shotlist: DDCC (0.20) gvs boys perform mountain bike tricks on dirt tracks (0.45) handheld shots boy blows a tire; boys including brother mock him (1.48) gvs boys perform trick on dirt track (2.32) extreme c/u eye; group practice wheelies on ramp and play to camera (3.16) brief shots cyclists catch air (3.27) gvs tricks including low angle shots of bike in the air (4.00) l/s boys try to cycle up tree (4.06) montage cyclists pulling tricks in mid-air on dirt track course, (5.23) boys playfight (6.06) montage bikes jumping off from steep slope (6.50) gvs boys jump off steps, onto benches, pull wheelies, rear wheel hops and bunnyhop up stairs in small squares and urban spaces (8.03) c/u obscene cockatoo graffiti (8.21) montage riders hacking down woodland tracks, including elevated shot [from tree?] (11.25) l/s boy hanging from tree; c/u gravel rash? on TC's forearm (11.42) gvs group cycle winding woodland track one by one (12.48) brief shots falling and laughing (12.58) gvs jumps in various locations, 180° spin (14.29) low angle shot bike jumping off ramp, sky and wall in b/ground (14.48) bikes leaping concrete stairs (15.28) cyclists using sloping park landscape as a ramp (16.16) jumping off stairs and sheds near prefab buildings with shots boys riding dirt track course (18.00) boys break a cathode ray tube by roadside (18.37) boys riding dirt track course (20.14) boys breaking a car radio and another CRT (20.38) riders negotiate mountain bikes over walls and a twelve-step stairway (21.08) YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING (21.08) [spoof] ecs [superimposed on shots of tricking riders and boys playing to camera in a room, some stop trick shots] (23.20) ints. TC, Adam Gatcombe and Alister Mackay? spoof Budweiser advert (23.44) "disappearing" skit using stop frame [dark] (26.48) boys break another abandoned TV by a road near Kessock Bridge (28.18) DIRTY D KS AND CUNNING C TS (28.32) DDCC 2 (28.38) gvs riders perform tricks off a dirt ramp (30.22) boy tamping down a modified double ramp on woodland course; ride over same, sometimes with AM? spreadeagled on ramp (31.43) brief tracking shot, riders leaping over tree roots onto park path (32.31) boy riding down two sets of stairs (32.40) ms unid. boy who didn't compete (33.11) gvs mountain biking competition over woodland course (41.38) repeated shots boys ride downhill over woodland tracks (43.22) boys ride over dirt course, low shot of rider jumping over camera and playfighting (44.26) riders cycle through pool of standing water, repeated shots boys falling in (45.32) gvs riders on woodland tracks, repeated shots boy crashing (46.27) gvs group riding into water, falling off and changing clothes (47.59) gvs riders crashing in woodland [some uncontrolled shots] (49.09) riders attempt a tight turn, riding on cross bar (50.38) uncontrolled shots, extreme c/u shoe (52.15) rider jumps from ramp (52.24)