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Title: I WILL BE

Reference number: 4742

Date: 1978

Director: d. Sarah Erulkar

Producer: Laurie Hardie-Brown

Production company: Viscom Scotland, in association with Smith Schorstein Associates Ltd

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.58 mins

Description: Teenagers talking about personal relationships, marriage, pregnancy etc.

Film is shot in Leith and Edinburgh. The 16-20 year olds are all from there.

Credits: p. Laurie Hardie-Brown
production managers Iain Smith, Jon Schorstein
sd. rec. Bob Mackenzie
cameraman Eddie McConnell
ed. Robert Morgan
w. Sarah Erulkar

Shotlist: Credits intercut with gvs of a funfair (2.19); Teenagers talking about jobs they've applied for and jobs they've got intercut with gvs of whisky bottling plant (3.54); Teenagers talking about experiences at school and university intercut with teenage pop group playing (7.35); two teenage girls talking at their home about their success in getting into modelling (8.29); Student approaching Edinburgh University (9.40); Gvs Leith and pregnant teenager with cat talking about their housing problems (11.00); Married Edinburgh teenager leaving her Edinburgh pre-fab and passing a dog in the street (11.34); Teenagers talking about marriage and personal problems with views inside a pre-fab home (13.13); Teenage girl in her flat and her problems with it, including views of the kitchen (14.58); Gvs judo, teenagers expressing their ambitions, including shot of toolmaker inside and engineering plant (16.03); Shots inside the pre-fab with the husband playing with the dog and talking about the future while his wife knits (16.37); Teenagers at an 18th birthday party, shots of birthday boy blowing out candles on the cake (17.51); Credits (17.57).