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Title: IMPROMPTU

Reference number: 6472

Date: 1950

Director: d. Pedro Font Marcet

Production company: Font Films

Sound: mute

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 13.00 minsc

Description: Amateur Spanish film about a couple learning to play the piano. Features a fantasy element as a piano teacher potentially threatens their relationship.

Credits: Esperanza Musterio
Juan Segués
José Samaranch
Guion y Camera P.Font
Ayudante P.Blanch
Supervisor J.Espa-ol
Produccion 1950

Esta pelicula fue presentada al XIIe Concurso INTERNACIONAL de cinema amateur celebrado en LUXEMBURGO (Agosto 1950) y se clasifico en 2e lugar absoluto, consiguendo la 2e Copa de la categoria de Argumentos.

Shotlist: Title. Gvs man in tuxedo playing concert piano. Couple in box at theatre, watching (1.20) pianist bows, couple applaud (1.36) ext. large house. Int. house, man sculpting, young girl as model (2.20) woman playing piano, husband and daughter applaud. Man writes to concert pianist, who comes for a meal. Pianist plays piano, husband falls asleep. [Dream sequence] Pianist touches wife (7.20) wife receives piano lessons, husband finishing sculpture. Husband drops sculpture after catching piano teacher moving close to his wife (9.10) piano teacher apologises to shake hands, husband offers to make sculpture of his hands. Locked into plaster cast, husband chops off hands (10.35) [dream sequence] man playing piano with no hands. (11.20) man awakens, his hands are fine. Leaves house, receives gift of plaster hands (12.20) couple playing piano together, smiling. FIN.