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Title: MAGIC WAND, the

Reference number: 3802

Date: 1936

Director: [filmed by Frank Marshall]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 8.28 mins

Description: A bedtime story about a magic wand becomes an adventure for the children when they find the wand and use its powers!

Shotlist: [Note this film has been shotlisted at 24fps. Total running time at 16fps is 12.555 mins]

THE MAGIC WAND (0.11) Mother and two children, boy playing with clockwork train engine, girl playing with house, mother then reads the children a story (about a magic wand) (1.33) Boy in bath, girl playing with her doll (3.08) Boy brushing his teeth (3.35) Girl brushing her hair (3.49) Boy in bed playing with his engine (3.55) Girl in bath and brushing her teeth (4.41) Both children in bed with toys, saying their prayers and then tucked into bed (5.08) Children asleep in bed, Girls doll becomes "alive" and tickles her nose. Both children wake up and go outside and dance around wand. Girl swings wand above her head (5.40) [Col] Children's close change, boy-elf , girl-fairy children wave to doll (6.07) children fetch their toys from their house, girl waves wand (6.26) toys are made bigger , girl waves wand again over a toy table and this is 'turned into' a setting of food for them to eat. Girl waves wand again and the food disappears. Wand is waved over flowers and they become bigger. Fairy pops out of a flower. Children lie down to sleep (7.59) [B&W] Children back in bed asleep. mother comes into waken them. The children tell of their adventure (8.25) THE END