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Title: TICKETS FOR THE ZOO

Reference number: 4968

Date: 1991

Director: d. Brian Crumlish

Sponsor: Channel 4 Television

Producer: Christeen Winford

Production company: Cormorant Films Production

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 93.48 mins

Description: Set in Edinburgh, this is the story of a down-at-heel, homeless couple (Carol and George) as they struggle to dig themselves out of the squalid city underbelly and build a life and a home for themselves.

Credits: Carol Alice Bree
Pogo Micky MacPherson
George Tom Smith
Eleanor Ashley Jensen
Zoe Fiona Chalmers
Grant David McGowan
Jamie Gary McLeod
Kenny David Cheung
Baby Robbie Kayleigh Anne Milne, Billy Smith, Scott Carmichael
Mary Jane Nelson Peebles
Children's Home Workers Douglas Stiven, Gerda Stevenson
Moira Lisa Grindall
Mrs Reid Elspet Campbell
Timothy Jason Broe
Waitress in Staffroom Jacqui Prentice
Housing Officer John Christie
Landlord Jamie Roberts
Social Worker Ann-Louise Ross
Restaurant Manager Robert McWhir
DSS Officer Gordon Neish
Trainee DSS Offiver Althea Duff
Midwife Terry Cavers
Fraud Officer Simon Donald
Nurse Julia Douglas
1st Heavy Tony Donaldson
2nd Heavy Alan Brown
Battered Young Girl Michelle Blyth
Policeman Ross Campbell
Gang Members Rona Sutherland, Stuart Hairs, Denise McConnell, Nicola Graham, Mark Connerton, Mikie Jacobs, Mark McCutcheon, Hamish McIntyre, Ian Fraser

With grateful thanks to John Brown, Alison Cairney, Stevie Cole, Scott Docherty, Graham Harkin, Fiona Laurie, Trevor McNaughton, Gail McPherson, Dian Milne, Kaz O'Donnell, Willie Sutherland, Arthur Todd, Toby Torrie, Edinburgh District Council, Edinvar Housing Association, Port Of Leith Housing Association, Edinburgh University Student Accomodation Service, Stopover Hostel Edinburgh, Cowgate Daycentre Edinburgh, People's Palace Edinburgh, Victoria Hostel Edinburgh, Lothian Health Board, Edinburgh Zoo, Lothian Ambulance Service, The King's Wark Leith, The Bridges Project Edinburgh

ph. Mark Singleton
follow focus Andrew Ford
clapper loader Kay Sheridan
camera trainee Ann Hendry
gaffer Andy Stewart
electrician Donny Campbell
grips Alex Leadbetter
stills ph. Alan Crumlish, Alan Mercer
sd. mixer Colin Nicolson
boom operator Tony Cook
dubbing mixer David Old
film ed. Fiona MacDonald
ass. ed. Ian Adams
dubbing ed. Neil Castell
production manager Lee Leckie
1st ass. d. Ian Ferguson
2nd ass. d. Liz Thomson
sc. supervisor Margaret Waldie
production accountant Hilda Booth
production secretary Margaret Gallacher, production runner Alex McLaren
production trainee Tony Sheridan
workshop supervisor Sandy Neilson
costume designer Lynn Aitken
make-up supervisor Irene Napier
art director Anenette Gillies
art dept. runners Jimmy Taylor, Jayne Wilding
music composed and d. Wendy Weatherby
bass and addit. material Gary Fimster
saxophones Phil Bancroft

Copyright Channel 4 MCMXCI

Shotlist: REEL 1-2 of 4 (46.12) 1733 ft

REEL 3-4 of 4 (47.36) 1785 ft

Set in Edinburgh, this is the story of a down at heel, homeless couple (Carol and George) as they struggle to dig themselves out of the squalid city underbelly and build a life / home for themselves.

The couple have found themselves dumped in a seedy underworld of pimps and petty crime but have an unshakable will to work and function in society. However, they are cruelly dealt blow after blow as hands that purport to offer help are not what they at first seem. Their salvation could turn out to be the unsteady goodwill of a bully-ish dropout gang leader, orphaned brother of Carol but despised by her partner George. Tension is heightened, and just when the couple gain something to lose...