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Title: PREFACE: A Short Story

Reference number: 5851

Date: 1966c

Director: d. Russell MacKnight

Production company: Edinburgh Cine Society in association with Edinburgh Film Guild and Institut Francais d'Ecosse.

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 6.50 mins

Description: A dramatic account of a man's affair and his relationship with his wife who has alcoholism.

Credits: act. Neville Garden (Alan Redman)
act. Elinor Robertson (Winifred)
act. Ruth Anderson (Ruth Anderson)
filmed by Jim Hickie

Shotlist: title (0.14) shot of man at typewriter typing PREFACE, A Short Story by E.C.S., I am a writer. If fame is measured in 'banner headlines' then I am not famous. Not Yet! But this story of Alan Redman may change all that...(0.43) still shots tell the story of how a man (Alan) and woman (Rebecca) meet in a park and fall in love (1.40) Ints of the couple as they argue. Alan is married to Winifred who has alcoholism (3.10) Alan goes upstairs, where his wife lies on the bed, he pours her a drink, he refuses her advances and she attempts to hit him with the bottle (5.20) they fight (5.42) shot of writer, camera turns to reveal that he is Alan Redman and that his wife is lying at the bottom of the stairs (6.35) ecs (6.50)