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Title: MESSAGE, the

Reference number: 6410

Date: 1968

Director: [filmed by John Allan]

Sound: silent

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 5.30 minsc

Description: Amateur fiction film about a man finding a message in a bottle in a loch which leads him to a woman just further along the lochside.

Shotlist: title, lochside road in country, mini van passes. Van stops, view from inside as man removes lunch (?) and sits lochside. Man eats food and then throws stones in loch. C/u message in bottle at loch shore. Man opens bottle, takes out message and then gets back in van and drives off. Tracking shot from inside car. Van stops outside lochside house. Coloured windbreaker pitched on grassy slope, bare female legs visible. Man stops, straightens tie and approaches woman who is seated beside another, elder woman. Man runs away back to van. Younger woman walks up to lochside and throws bottle in. The End.