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Title: EL TORO BRAVO

Reference number: 6597

Date: 1965*

Director: filmed by Bill Walker

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.40 minsc

Description: Amateur film overview of daytime bullfighting at an arena almost definitely in Spain. Also general exterior street scenes.

Notes in folder supplied by Edinburgh Cine and Video Society: "Ref : reg/8/11. A film made by the late Bill Walker and presented to ECS by his mother. An excellent film of the events leading up to the bullfight and showing the excitement of La Corrida'. "

Shotlist: Title, gvs street scenes almost definitely in Spain. Billboard for Skol lager. Ext. Gaudiesque bullfighting arena. C/u street poster for bullfighter Antonio Ordonez, other posters. Gvs streets people walking about in sun. Hand held camera shots. Cars drop off bullfighters in costume outside arena. Int. arena, crowd taking seats. Gvs crowd, glimpse of bullfighter, brass band in crowd. Advertising hoarding for Iberia TV. Arena clock at midday. Bullfighters enter arena, men on horseback. Gvs bullfighting, man and horse knocked over. Gvs bullfighters stabbing coloured knives into bull, bull bleeding, intercut with crowd cheering. 3 horses tow dead bull. Another bull released in arena, running around. Poster drops to reveal 'FIN'.