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Title: ORDER OF THE BOOT, the

Reference number: 5869

Date: 1950c

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 4.57 mins

Description: A photographer is thwarted in his photo-taking by an elderly woman.

Shotlist: This is to certify that this film has been specially commended by Amateur Cine World. Exterior shot of the outside of a hotel. A photographer exits, gets into a car and drives off. (1.19) He sets up his camera on a stand but an elderly woman points out that he is on private ground. Trying to set up elsewhere, she still comes and annoys him. He jostles her out of the way. (2.34) Action changes to a park, but the woman keeps popping up on the film, including coming right up close to the camera. (4.14) When she tries to get behind the camera, the man loses his patience, packs up and leaves. As he goes to put his equipment in the boot of his car, the woman is already in there. The End. (4.57)