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Title: SPASKI & HUTCHSKI

Reference number: 6290

Date: 1978

Sound: silent

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 3.20 minsc

Description: Fictional chess game in which the players briefly fall asleep only for the chess pieces to 'come alive'.

Shotlist: C/u chessboard on chequered tablecloth. Title appears in coloured letters on board. Side view two men hunched over chessboard on table, clock on table. Pine wooden panelling in b/ground. Closer view both men as they make moves. One man wipes his brow, c/u clock. Brief c/u's both men's faces. Overhead view board and hands. Both men appear to nod off. Chess pieces move of their own accord and congregate on table. Men wake up and pieces are back on board, match appears to be a draw. They shake hands. Letters on board spell 'Endski'.