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Title: DOCTOR KILIMOV

Reference number: 7396

Date: 1966*

Sound: sound

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: Fiction

Running time: 4.40 mins

Description: Short comedy in which the incompetent Dr. Kilimov comes to the aid of an electrocuted man, but only succeeds in making him much worse.

Note from Mr Saberton: Another club favourite this is a comedy about a Doctor who uses some unusual methods and equipment to try and revive a patient who has electrocuted himself. The wife succeeds where the doctor has failed and dispatches the doctor by hitting him over the head with a vase.

See also refs. 7437 and 7440. Paper archive records relating to the Dalziel Camcorder Club also held at the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

Credits: camera J. Thomson
director J. Matthews
act. G. Smith (Dr. Kilimov)
act. J. Anderson (Husband)
act. A. Brown (Wife)

Shotlist: [shot-listed from DV - manual control track]

title - credits - man at table soldering electrical equipment, gets electric shock and falls backwards on to chair - wife tries unsuccessfully to revive him (1.07) wife phones doctor, then wraps husband in blanket - doctor arrives, brings assortment of non-medical tools out of his bag - tests husband's pulse with headphones, shakes his head - listens to his heart with sink attachment and checks pulse with wall-clock - over-inflates husband's stomach with foot-pump (3.29) wife brings Hoover to deflate husband's stomach - wife finally revives husband with water from vase of flowers and knocks out Dr. Kilimov with vase, before placing flowers on his chest - The End (4.40)