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Title: JOIN THE TEA SET

Reference number: 6576

Date: 1967

Sound: mute

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 3.20 minsc

Description: Amateur comedy short about granny's visit which disrupts a boy's comic reading. He gets revenge by scaring her with a clockwork mouse to the detriment of the tea set of the title.

Credits: A First Film by Group '67

Shotlist: Title, young boy in front room armchair reading 'Valiant' comic. He takes a peak out of the curtains before his mother and granny enter the room. C/u lipstick from Granny's kiss on boys cheek, c/u clock at 4pm. Mother lays cloth on small table and then enters kitchen, fills kettle and puts it onto boil. Granny picks up comic disapprovingly, puts it down and leaves room to help mother in kitchen. Boy bends down to pick it up and finds clockwork mouse. He sets it off across floor as mother and granny enter room, granny drops tray of teacups and saucers. Three of them standing holding just cup handles, then pretend to drink. The End.