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Title: AT 21

Reference number: 7268

Date: 1994

Director: d. Andrew Wilde

Sponsor: Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television

Production company: Superstring Film Productions presents

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.44 mins

Description: Homeless people in the city of New York are asked what they were doing at 21 years of age. See also ref. 7598

Part of 'Centenary Reels' film scheme. First Reels was launched during 1991 by Scottish Film Council in response to a perceived need for small grants to help young and first time film-makers to make or complete their first film or video project. Scottish Television came in as co-sponsor at an early stage and as well as contributing to half the funds they have given the scheme a tremendous public relations boost by running three half hour documentaries showing excerpts from the First Reels. Applicants were invited to submit projects in any format and on any subject they chose. All entries were considered by a jury and thirty five projects were given grants varying from 50 to 2000. On show at the GFT are a representative selection of the best of the films and videos supported by the scheme. [Editorial from Scottish Film Council in Paper Archive 1/1/394]

Credits: A documentary film by Andrew Wilde

To put an end to class division was the 20th century's most heroic effort and it's failure one of history's most calamitous.

ed. and d. ph. Andrew Wilde
camera ass. Neil Stephens, Claudio Corbucci
sd. ed. John Cobham

m. New York New York performed by Frank Sinatra. Harvest Moon performed by Neil Young

special thanks to Robert McKenna, Anna Mieder
conceived by Andrew Wilde

Produced at New York Film Academy October 1994
© "At 21" Wilde A. 1994 Copyright.
Made with financial assistance from the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television