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Title: JUMBLE FEVER

Reference number: 6482

Date: 1965

Director: filmed by Mrs Fiona Brock

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 3.20 minsc

Description: Amateur comedy about frenzied bargain hunters attending an Edinburgh Cine Society evening jumble sale. The tables are cleared in a few minutes and organisers left the worse for wear!

Credits: cam. Miss E. Phimster, Miss E. Douglas

Shotlist: [shotlisted from speed corrected VHS copy, manual control track]

title (0.00.03) ECS Jumble sale 7 p.m. (0.00.09) Elevated view men sorting clothes. (0.00.15) Women banging on glass door to get in. (0.00.19) C/u on clock, reads, 7 o'clock. (0.00.24) Man opens door and is pushed aside by bargain hunters. (0.00.35) Frenzy of people, mostly women, rushing in and fighting over clothes. (0.00.56) Another rush of people. Clothes being thrown around. (0.01.04) The organisers selling clothes get knocked over and their jackets taken as the crowd leave. (0.01.33) Man trying on several hats. He attacks an organiser, pulling a hat over his eyes, before escaping. People rushing around through the building. (0.01.57) C/u on clock, a few minutes after 7 o'clock. (0.02.01) People rushing with goods. Including cameras, kettles and pans. (0.02.19) One organiser getting his elbow bandaged. (0.02.31) Man who was attacked tries to get his hat off. (0.02.45) Four men that organised jumble sale leaving, looking worse for wear. Last man flips round sign on door ECS For Sale. (0.02.59) The End.