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Title: RIDDLE OF RODONO

Reference number: 6413

Date: 1972*

Director: [filmed by Frank Walker]

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 8.20 minsc

Description: Imaginative amateur science fiction film about an unexplained 'force' affecting a couple of middle aged people walking by the lochside.

Credits: [act. Maisie Brock, Ian Tait]

Shotlist: title, ext. overlooking unidentified loch. Blue Ford Cortina drives up slope to Rodono Hotel entrance. People unloading luggage from car boot. Group of people sitting around coffee table, man with pipe talking. People standing outside in sunshine. Middle aged man and woman climb steps and walk in grassy area with some trees. Woman bends down to touch bush and cuts hand. Man wipes it. Couple turn round quickly as large tree is felled nearby. They look closely at it before being apparantly attacked by insects. Couple run to lochside. C/u splash in water, couple turn around to see shadowy figure flashing light towards them. They begin to walk, man falls over, gets up again. Couple grasp their ears and eyes against piercing light and noise. C/u bright light, couple staggering, both fall over clutching heads before running away. The End.