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Title: NEW BEGINNING, a

Reference number: 6438

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 7.45mins c

Description: Amateur fiction short featuring a woman feeding her cats milk and visiting her next door neighbours.

Credits: Miss Prym Effie Robertson
Mrs Doolittle Irene Robb
Mr Doolittle Bill Robertson
Colonel Smithers A Purves
The Milkman Mark Lawson
Our thanks due to
milk float Kennerty farm dairies
Alan Prince the cats

Shotlist: Title. Milk float driving through housing scheme, milkman delivering bottles. Kennerty Farm Dairies painted on float. Milkman delivering milk, meets woman on path who picks up bottle of milk as she enters house. Int. house, woman enters and speaks to cat. C/u clock at 11.55 am. Woman returns with milk for cat, another cat at window. She pours saucer of milk for cat, cup of tea for herself and settles down to read magazine. C/u woman talking to herself. Ext house, woman goes next door and speaks to female neighbour on doorstep. Int. neighbours house, couple reading newspapers. Neighbour comes around with a mysterious man. The End of A New Beginning.