SATURDAY NIGHT
Tam may be able to down a pint in a oner, but he has to be helped home afterwards and ruins the night out for everyone. (clip)
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Title: SATURDAY NIGHT
Reference number: 4746
Date: 1979c
Sponsor: S.H.E.G
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 2.37 mins
Description:
Advert against excessive drinking - a drunken man tries to show off his ability to hold drink after secretively drinking an extra whisky, incapacitating himself and breaking up an evening out for his friends.
View a more complete version of this film running to 2.36 mins at The Wellcome Library http://encore.wellcome.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1756039?lang=eng [last accessed 6/2/2013]
Credits: cast Tony Roper
Shotlist: Three men and three women drinking together in a pub, [the Halfway House, Edinburgh] on a Saturday night; one of the men tries to press another round on his friends; at the bar, he chats up the barmaid unsuccessfully, while drinking a whisky to himself (0.59) returning to the table his friends refuse the round; he downs a pint in 10 seconds and is immediately sick in the gents (2.04) The women leave together, one saying "It's another wasted Saturday night"; the drunk is half-carried from the pub by his friends. Voice over: "Drink Doesn't Make A Man. Stand On Your Own Two Feet" (2.42)