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Title: CHANGING A TYRE

Reference number: 3872

Date: 1959*

Production company: SEFA

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.34 mins

Description: A little dramatised educational film, demonstrating how to change a car's tyre.

This film perhaps is not the finished version - lots of jump cuts, repeated footage and leader interspersing the shots. See also ref. 3928 [ROADSIDE DRAMA].

Credits: filmed by SEFA

Shotlist: A women's car parked by the side of the road, has a flat tyre. A man stops to help but is unsure of what to do. Another man who is driving by stops to lend a hand, and shows how it is properly done. (3.44) leader (3.47) [What now follows is riddled with jump cuts and repeated footage - does not look like the finished article] women has a cigarette with first man while second man finishes off job and subsequently leaves. Women says goodbye to first man and drives off. Man turns around to discover that his car now has a flat tyre (7.05) leader (7.12) cars pass along stretch of road while man tries to change his tyre (7.34)