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Title: ZONE OF SILENCE

Reference number: 6414

Date: 1968 - 1969

Director: filmed by Jim Cuthbert

Sound: sound

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 14.07 mins

Description: Amateur film about a young couple who have an unexplained supernatural experience in the woods, possibly due to a radio blackout, which they then report to police.

Winner of the Stewart McAlister Memorial Trophy - for a film showing imaginative use of sound, at the Scottish Amateur Film Festival, 1970.

Credits: ph. W. Trapp, K. Fleming, R. Maxwell
sd. J. Frame, J. Cuthbert, A.Findlater, D. McLaughlan
titles W. Walker, S. Graham
man Murray Raynor
woman Dorothy Shiels
Lotus Elan M. Walls
percussion N. Garden, G. Melville-Mason
story, d. & ed. Jim Cuthbert

Shotlist: title and opening credits. Camera pulls back from mass of twigs, pans along grass to a radio. Young man having picnic, young woman combing her hair, visible in reflection of his sunglasses. They fool around, kiss, woman grabs radio and cup and walks off into woods. Elevated gvs woman walking, she stops beside river. Rinses cup, c/u hand in river. She walks back through trees, c/u eyes as she is startled. Woman drops cup and is realises she is lost. Tracking shot through twigs approaching rear of girl. It is the young man who grabs her and they set off together. Couple arrange cups in large circle in clearing. Couple run away and set off in Lotus sports car. Tracking shot from car through countryside then past houses. They stop and enter police station. The End of the Beginning.