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Title: THICKER THAN WATER

Reference number: 7077

Date: 1997

Director: d. Elly M. Taylor

Sponsor: Scottish Screen, British Screen, Scottish Television, Scottish Arts Council

Producer: Sue Porter

Production company: Taylored Productions

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 7.56 mins

Description: "Thicker Than Water" conveys a brief moment of intimacy between a young girl and her Aunt. The setting is a tenement in the less than enlightened 1930s. The onset of puberty provokes alarm and confusion for the girl, causing the Aunt to reflect on her own younger days at a village dance during the First World War. [synopsis from Scottish Screen Catalogue of Short Films 1993 - 1999 "Kicking up a Storm"]

Production file held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

Prime Cuts: A joint short film initiative from Scottish Screen, British Screen, Scottish Television and the Scottish Arts Council. Films were produced on 16mm.

Credits: by Frances Bell

Jean Juliet Cadzow
Young Girl Jennifer McLardy
Young Jean Kirsteen Campbell
Jamesie MacFarlane Mark McKee
Woman at Dance Julie Austen
Accordian Player Billy Hume
Fiddle Player Willie Dunlop
Children Asleep Anna Moore, Stuart Moore, Anna Bruce

d. ph. Oliver Cheesman
p. designer Dugald Findlay
ed. James Hamilton
composer Ross Campbell
sd. rec. Louis Kramer
costume designer Maggie Miller
make-up designer Kate Elliot-Muir
p. man. Jo Johnstone
first ass. d. Nils den Hertog
second ass. d. Michael Queen
sc. supervisor Janis Watt
p. co-ordinator Helen Moore
p. runners Katherine May, Kenneth Park
make-up ass. Pippa Wilson
make-up trainee Nicky Knowles
costume ass. Angela Robertson
boom operator Peter Murphy
dubbing mixer Cy Jack
lighting gaffer Donny Campbell
electrician Michael Carr
art d. Ewan Duncan
standby props Anne McCredie
focus puller Finlay McAllister
clapper loader Julie Bills
grip Dave Mahon
p. accountant David Muir
stills ph. Charlie Crawford
camera equipment GHS
film stock Kodak
film laboratory Metrocolor
exec. p. Emma Berkofsky, Mark Grindle, Oscar van Heek

Shot on location in Glasgow with the support of The Glasgow Film Office

Prime Cuts. A Taylored Production for The Scottish Film Production Fund, British Screen and Scottish Television in association with The Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund

© Taylored Productions Ltd. 1997