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Title: SPOILED PICNIC, a

Reference number: 7084

Date: 1942

Director: [filmed by Henry Cocozza]

Production company: Supramont Pictures

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 8.20 mins

Description: Three sisters are enjoying a day out on a local estate when they are spied upon by a young man with a rifle.

Drama shot by Enrico Cocozza's father Henry. His influence on his son's film making is very apparent in these odd slightly eerie films.

Credits: A Supramont Picture
Henry Cocozza Presents A Spoiled Picnic
Filmed on Belhaven Estate
p. and d. Henry Cocozza
Grateful Acknowledgement to Mr. Blair for permission to film on the Estate

Shotlist: [shotlisted from VHS, BBC timecode at 25fps. Please note overall running time at actual speed of 18fps = 8.20 mins]

[British Censor certificate U classification] title and credits (0.29) The Plunkett Sisters decided to go a picnic on a beautiful estate near their home So they rose early one morning and prepared their bikes before setting off. three sisters prepare their bikes and set off - note the maid / nanny who helps them get ready (2.45) At last they arrived on the estate brief shot of the sisters walking on the estate (2.59) But Tina met with a slight accident Tina trips over a "No Camping" sign, Tina throws away the sign, shot of a man leaving an estate house with a rifle and walking through the wooded estate - he sees the girls (4.19) While Nina noticed "that man" at the tree. the sisters look about them - brief shot (4.37) So they made a dash for the bikes very brief shot of the same (4.44) And wended their weary way home brief shot of the sisters riding home (4.58) The End, credit (5.10)