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Title: AN H... OF A HITCH!

Reference number: 6474

Date: 1968 c

Director: filmed by John Docherty

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 11.40 minsc

Description: Amateur short about a hitchiker who is successful in obtaining a lift, only for the vehicle to breakdown.

Filmed on a combined outing of Edinburgh Cine Society and Dumfries Cine Clubs

Credits: Edinburgh and Dumfries present
With Jack & May Fulton & Iain, John & Margaret Wilson, Margaret & Turnbull Harrison and their Lagonda

Shotlist: title, ext. busy road, cars passing. Man standing at roadside sign for Edinburgh/Newcastle, thumbing a lift with no luck. Family setting picnic spread in field. Brief shot vintage cars preparing to set off on road. An estate car stops, for hitchiker, he begins to load several bags in car. Tracking shot from car past fields. Car grinds to a halt on an uphill slope. Family push car and then man checks engine. Vintage car slows to help and begins to tow the first car. C/u 'On Tow' sign on back windscreen. The Bitter End.