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Title: WILD GOOSE CHASE, a

Reference number: 3933

Date: 1960 c.

Director: filmed by T.H. Thoms

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 5.14 min

Description: Story of four children who are playing when they discover a goose's egg. They try to boil the egg but the egg expands and floats away. The story unfolds as the children chase after the egg only to find it returning to its natural size and returning to its nest.

This film gained a THREE STAR commendation in the TEN BEST COMPETITION OF 1961.

Shotlist: A WILD GOOSE CHASE (7.08) Dog and kitten playing (0.19) Children playing in the garden with a ball and the dog runs and takes the ball. The children get the ball back (0.32) Children picking berries while the younger two play with the dog and the ball (0.46) Geese, playing again (0.57) Mother gives the children food for the geese, they go to feed the geese(1.41) the children find eggs, and call the others to look, the boy picks an egg up takes it away, the children build a fire to cook the egg, the egg is placed in a saucepan of water over the fire (2.47) the egg expands and floats away (2.56) the children and the dog chase after the egg (3.35) It blows into another garden, as man is cutting the grass (3.57) The egg follows the river beside the geese, and chases the ducks from the river (4.42) the egg lands on its nest and shrinks back to its normal size, a toy drummer springs up and frightens the children (5.14)