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Title: TROUBLE BREWING

Reference number: 6603

Date: 1975*

Director: filmed by S. Sievwright

Sound: sound

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 16.00 minsc

Description: Amateur comedy short about a wife taking up home brewing to keep husband at home. Unfortunately (for wife) husband invites friends and acquaintances to taste home brew.

Credits: husband Jim Taylor
wife Gina White
salesman Dick Robertson
p. R. Lacon
cam. R. Ferguson, G. Liston
cont. E. Dunnet, M. McLaren
light. D. Robertson
ass.d. G. Junor
ed.& sd. C. Auld, J. Grant
supported by ECS Basic Group members 1975-76

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

An Edinburgh Cine Society Production. (0.00.09) Trouble Brewing. (0.00.13) Credits. (0.00.26) Wife does dishes, man lying on couch reading newspaper. (0.00.56) Man sleeps as wife comes to watch the television and read. (0.01.28) C/u on clock. Reads 7:35. Man leaves for the pub (0.01.42) Clark's bar, joins friends for a drink and game of snooker. (0.02.29) Wife back home, cleaning. (0.02.45) She lets in salesman. (0.03.25) C/u of tin of 'lager type malt extract'. Wife seems very interested. (0.03.30) Wife waves her husband off. (0.03.52) Wife prepares home brew mix. (0.04.38) Gv's of Clark's bar (0.04.49) Wife tastes early stages of home brew. (0.04.59) Wife stirs and bottles home brew. (0.05.38) Wife and husband sit together. (0.05.42) Man prepares to go out again, wife produces a bottle of lager, husband enjoys a sip. Sees how much home brew his wife has produced (0.06.29) He leaves the house anyway. Wife is disappointed. (0.06.41) Clarks bar. Man tells his friends. (0.07.06) Wife reads the paper as they all return to the house and enjoy the hospitality and home brew. (0.09.01) Husband and friends watch a football match. (0.09.29) C/u on angry wife looking at the party and the mess being made. (0.09.44) C/u on calendar Monday, February 9. (0.09.50) Calendar February 19th. Much bigger party at the house. (0.10.12) Wife makes tea. Tells husband the home brew is running out as he comes to collect more. (0.10.37) Wife pours out remaining bottles, fills them with cold tea. Friends start to notice the difference. (0.11.27) Friends return to pub with husband. (0.11.37) Gv's Clarks bar. Husband drinks too much. (0.12.18) Wife enjoys a drink at home with salesman. (0.12.27) Ecs. (0.12.59) The End