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Title: GOING FOR GOLD

Reference number: 6425

Date: 1980

Director: [filmed by Gordon Newlands]

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 4.00 minsc

Description: Amateur comedy film about a young man in training apparently for a race but we discover at the end that it is for another reason entirely!

Credits: [p. Gordon Newlands assisted by Moira Todd]

Shotlist: Title, unmade bed, c/u digital bedside clock time 7.20 am. Young man with bucket and hand shovel walks up path to open door, drops them and walks in house. Young man sitting at table having breakfast. Man eating Special K breakfast cereal and drinking orange juice, tracking shot of young man jogging along road. Man jogging along grass at edge of sea, dull weather conditions. Man at breakfast table eating toast and drinking milk. Man exercising in back garden, star jumps, press ups, sit-ups. Man eating meal at table again,then outside practising sprint starts. Elevated view from window of horse-drawn milk cart in street. Digital bedside clock, beside made bed, time 6.48 am. Man runs out of house and scoops up horse manure from road. The End