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Title: THEY'RE ALWAYS PICKING ON US

Reference number: 4751

Date: 1980

Director: d. Sarah Erulkar

Sponsor: Scottish Health Education Unit

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

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 16.04 mins

Description: Schoolchildren talking about issues that concern them as they leave school. Concentrates on the theme of authority and rules in life.

Series aimed at 14 - 16 year olds in schools and youth groups, script based on the observations of teenagers themselves.

Credits: p. Laurie Hardie-Brown
sd. rec. Bob Mackenzie and Louis Kramer
cam. Eddie McConnell
ed. Robert Morgan
w. Sarah Erulkar

Shotlist: Credits (1.00); Schoolchildren in school with school leavers chatting on stairs (1.54); School leavers talk at front of school, with girls playing hockey in the background (2.30); School classes (3.40); Gvs Glasgow streets where a boy and a dog nearly have an accident, a policewoman gets involved (6.04); Gvs school leavers talking in the self service canteen intercut with incidents involving trouble including a riot, shoplifting, a drunk in a Glasgow bar (11.18); Teenage girl working with children with disabilities, with the children's activities including playing snooker and the guitar (11.59); Teenager and school technician in the school projection box (13.32) Gvs at Central or Queen Street Station, Glasgow and teenager saying goodbye to his dog (16.04)