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Title: PAIR OF SHOES, a

Reference number: 4535

Date: 1955c

Director: filmed by Mr R G Giuiliani Dec'd

Production company: [ Aberdeen & District Cine Club]

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.45 mins

Description: Fictional film by the Aberdeen and District Cine Club where a woman is murdered and a man commits suicide.

Note: Film possibly runs at 20/22 fps? Has been shotlisted at 24fps.

Credits: Aberdeen & District Cine Club Presents
with Muriel Green, Bill Ferguson, Herbert Kelman
d. W. Cockburn
camera R. Giuliani
sd. R. Miller

Shotlist: Woman lying on the ground. Man at a record player. (.14) title and opening credits (0.27) Man leaving the flat, exits the building and walks down the street, over a bridge and park. Every now and then he is haunted by the sound of footsteps. (2.04) Man enters a house and sits down. (2.12) In a flash back the man is standing by the dock, and helps a young woman when her high heels get trapped in the tram lines (?) (2.42) Man sitting smoking. (2.49) Another flash back. Man waits for the young woman and they walk to the cinema. (3.36) Man and woman in the cinema. Woman takes off her shoes. (3.40) Man and woman standing on a bridge. (3.45) Man sitting thinking. (3.53) Another flash back. Man standing waiting for the woman. He then she her walk off with another man. (4.24) Woman and the other man enter a flat. (4.34) Man sitting devastated on a park bench. (4.36) Man watches as the other man leaves the woman's flat. He then goes in. (4.47) Woman in her flat listening to music. She sits down and puts on her shoes. (5.09) Man opens her door with a key. (5.14) Woman putting on lipstick. She goes to change the record. (5.28) Woman hears a noise outside her door, she checks, but the man hides. (5.42) Man turns off the light and strangles her. (5.51) C/u of her shoes. (5.52) Man sitting in his chair. (5.57) He hears the sound of high heels getting closer and closer to his door. (6.10) He blocks the gap of the door with a blanket, then turns on the gas fire. (6.22) View of a busy street with lots of women wearing high heels. Flashes of different locations. (6.35) Zoom in on woman's shoes. (6.41) The End (6.45)