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Title: PENALTY, the

Reference number: 3248

Date: 1948

Sponsor: The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

Production company: SEFA (Glasgow Group)

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.00 mins

Description: The story of a schoolboy footballer who ignored rules of road safety and the resulting penalty.

Commended in the 1948 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.

Shotlist: credits (0.18) shot of boy buying and reading Evening Times newspaper (0.39) Donald Stuart's ambition is to be a great footballer (0.48) boy dreams he is famous, running out on to the field with his team, shots of bagpipers on football field and adoring crowds (1.41) children running out of Hyndland school, Glasgow to look at sheet with football line-up (2.14) Donald and Tom are friendly rivals (2.21) brief shot boys cheering (2.32) The trial game (2.36) gvs same (3.17) Donald makes a false move (3.21) gvs same (3.31) The penalty! (3.34) successful penalty is scored and Donald becomes captain of school team, fellow pupils cheering (4.44) school ends, shots of boys walking home across busy street (Clarence Drive, Glasgow) and getting on tram home (5.43) Donald, having missed his tram, jumps on back of passing lorry. shots of tram behind (with his rival, Tom, on board), boys shouting and arguing (6.37) Donald is told to get off back of lorry, he falls in road as he does so and is hit by oncoming tram (6.46) shots of policeman taking notes, an ambulance and policeman telling Donald's mother of accident (7.46) Operating theatre (7.54) gvs same (8.13) Some weeks later (8.18) gvs boys playing football, Donald as spectator with crutches and amputated leg (8.41) gvs football match (8.55) Donald broke the rules. He paid the Penalty! (9.00)