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Title: TIME FOR A SMOKE

Reference number: 6397

Date: 1965

Director: filmed by Bill Roy

Production company: Edinburgh Cine Society

Sound: sound

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 7.58 mins

Description: Amateur morality tale in which a man smokes heavily in order to collect cigarette tokens for a 'free' gift. [Voiceover is spoken in rhyme].

Awarded four stars in the Amateur Cine World ten best competition of 1965-6.

Credits: act. Tom Frisch (Albert Syme),
act. Ruby Frisch (Mrs Syme),
act. Chas. Mac Connell (Postman),
act. Chas. Walls (Doctor),
act. Alastair Dewar (Narrator)
p. team R. Mac Knight, J Wilson, G. Rendall, D. Robertson, W. Walker, J. Walls. A. McMillan
sc. Bill Roy

Shotlist: Amateur Cine World. This film has been awarded four stars in the Ten best competition of 1965-6. (0.07) Leader. (0.11) C/u wooden clock and an ashtray on mantle. Credits. (0.25) Cigarette placed in ashtray. Man puts on coat with aid of wife and leaves house. (0.40) exts. Runs for and misses number 4 bus, intercut with wife pops out of house briefly, shaking her head. (1.21) C/u white clock, 2.50 am. Man sleeping fitfully. Cut to wooden clock on mantle, 9.25. Wife points out watch in magazine to man. (1.55) Ext. newsagent/tobacconist, c/u sign 'smoke Fettes Royale. The cigarette with gifts for a King'. Man enters shop and comes out with cigarettes, lights one. (2.21) ms man enjoying cigarette in living room. He counts his coupons on a low table (2.56) C/u calendar Tuesday 14 April, it quickly forwards to Monday 4 May. (3.05) Man tallying cigarette tokens on table. (3.10) Ext. newsagent/tobacconist, man enters and leaves. (3.21) Man at table, coughing, back to newsagent for more cigarettes. (3.51) C/u man smoking; ms counting tokens, he stacks them in neat piles (4.12) exts. back to newsagent for more cigarettes. (4.20) Man and wife wrapping parcel in brown paper. C/u label 'Fettes Royale Ltd, Gift Dept, 23 Fettes Row, Edinburgh'. (4.50) exts. Man takes parcel to post office; ls post van on road. (5.11) c/u ashtray; man rises from his chair to wait; he stands at his door but the postman passes by (5.38) C/u man smoking. (5.50) shots of man going to his door and accepting a small parcel from the postman (6.10) c/u parcel tied with string and sealed with wax (6.16) ms man tries to show the "gift" to his wife but collapses coughing on couch. (6.48) ms Doctor examines man on bed, shakes his head and leaves. Man lights up as the doctor leaves (7.16) C/u wreath behind ashtray, A.Syme. (7.21) exts. Hearse drives into cemetery. (7.26) Ecs. (7.58) [soundtrack continues to (8.03)]