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Title: EXERCISE MOVIE

Reference number: 3969

Date: 1958

Director: filmed by Brian Glanvill, Leslie Freeman and George H. Sewell

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 6.32 mins

Description: A woman sitting feeding the pigeons sitting next to a sleeping man on a park bench. The woman has to startle the man awake by bursting a paper bag in order to free her handbag.

The full story of EXERCISE MOVIE was published in Amateur Movie Maker August September 1958. Three short films were made by a beginner, an experienced amateur and a professional. Each was given the same story synopsis, the same camera (a GB Bell Howell 'Autoload') and 100ft of 16mm Kodak Plus X film. Working independently, each movie-maker shot his own version of the story in the same location with the same girl in the leading part.

Credits: Amateur Movie Maker presents:
The three short films you are about to see were made by a beginner, an experienced amateur and a professional. Each was given the same story synopsis, the same camera (a G.B. Bell Howell 'Autoload') and 100ft of 16mm Kodak Plus X film. Working independently, each movie-maker shot his own version of the story in the same location with the same girl in the leading part. The full story of EXERCISE MOVIE was published in Amateur Movie Maker August September 1958. Here are the results:

Shotlist: credits and title (0.47) Version No. 1 by the beginner Brian Glanvill shot of man sleeping on park bench with a newspaper over his head, woman in headscarf sitting beside him. Little girl runs up and swipes newspaper from his face, waking him up. Runs off (1.03) brief shot street scene, walled archway and fountain in background (looks English somehow? York?) (1.05) woman walks up to bench, sits beside man eating sandwiches and feeds pigeons. man falls asleep beside her and leans over handbag, trapping it (1.53) [overexposed, oof to (2.24)] woman blows up and bangs paper bag, waking man up and freeing her bag (2.24) shot of woman's smiling face (2.28) oof c/u man's face (2.30) woman takes bag and runs off (2.35) Version No. 2 by the experienced amateur Leslie Freeman gvs woman walking up to park bench overlooking tennis courts and players, feeding pigeons sandwiches. Man sitting next to her falls asleep on her handbag, is woken up with woman bursting paper bag. The two exchange knowing smiles as woman walks off (4.41) Version No. 3 by the professional George H. Sewell gvs same story line with man and woman, only this time he does not wake up when bag is burst, the woman simply pushes him upright and he falls, sleeping over the other way! (6.28) The End (6.32)