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Title: UNEXPECTED, the

Reference number: 6431

Date: 1979*

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 10.00 minsc

Description: Partially animated amateur about the visit to a toymaker of small extra-terrestrial robots who inspire him to invent Playmobil people.

Credits: A 'Trio' Film by
cam. K.Couper
anim. G.Singer
[actor Jack Grant]

Shotlist: Ext. brief view evening sky over grass. Brief view bus, train then Princes street in dusk. Edinburgh castle in dusk. Title. Animated stop motion sequence of toy robots in spaceship approaching earth. Robots walking. Sign on door 'Toymaker'. Int. elderly (live) man in white coat making toys at workbench. C/u large plastic yellow truck on workbench. Toymaker stops work, goes over and picks up two small still robots. He measures them against ruler, then does a sketch of them. He makes a small 'Playmobil' character. Puts toy in pocket and leaves house. Ext. building, sign 'Toy Assessment Centre'. C/u boxes Playmobil, Playpeople 'little people for little people'. Space ship taking off.