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Title: PORTFOLIO TO TROUBLE

Reference number: 6444

Date: 1981

Director: filmed and p. by Archie Craig, George Juner

Sound: sound

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 19.00 minsc

Description: Amateur fiction tale about a potential art student in Edinburgh who is led astray by a friend; he ends up breaking and entering a flat and assaulting the elderly owner.

Credits: w. George Juner
Peter Stuart Fyvie
Nick John Taylor
college principal Archie Craig
Linda Linda Dawson
old man George Juner
with Alex McMillan, Norman Spiers, Neil Shaw
thanks to Gosman's fruit shop, Tony's cafe, Kitchencraft
titles John Anderson
stills Douglas Lornie
cam. Archie Craig
1981

Shotlist: Title, credits. (0.18) Elevated view of castle, pan down to young man carrying portfolio and walking along street. (1.09) Ext. Edinburgh College of Art, Hunter Building. (1.59) Int. office, man at desk, student sits down. Man looks at portfolio and questions. (3.35) "Peter" leaves and talks to Nick outside Black Bull pub. (4.36) Peter at party in living room, talking to a girl pictures on wall; Peter talking to Nick. (6.01) Peter wanders around various shops, including artists supplies, fitted kitchen specialists and a fruit shop, intercut with shopowners speaking briefly to camera. (7.34) Ext. Tony's fish and chicken bar, beside Oddbins; int., Peter and Nick eating chips and talking. (8.45) Ext. friends at riverbank drinking from a half bottle of Grouse whisky. (10.08) Ext. pair spy on elderly man leaving basement flat and break in, intercut with old man apparently realising he has forgotten something (12.47) Man returns while friends search bedroom, struggle; Peter holds his hand over the man's mouth, who bites him; Peter hits him with his walking stick; the pair leave flat in rush having stolen a biscuit tin full of money. (14.16) Peter returns to flat to see elderly man, lying on floor with head wound; he dials 999 and waits with head in hands. ecs. (18.05)