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Title: FANTOOSH

Reference number: 7532

Date: 1996

Director: d. Morag MacKinnon

Sponsor: Scottish Film Production Fund, British Screen, Scottish Television in association with The Scottish Arts Council

Producer: Hannah Lewis

Production company: Fantoosh Film / Area 5

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Certificate: 15

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 7.09 mins

Description: A singular old man is torn-faced and broken. In earlier photographs he’s eight feet tall and makes a very poor doormat, affable with the hordes. Now, he’s hit his anecdotage, busy fending off obituarists. His only recourse to dignity is language. [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. Screened at the Beltane Fire Festival, Edinburgh, 1994 (?)

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: Old Man Graham Crowden
Young Man Colin McLaren
Wee Boy Ross Anderson

ph. Kenneth Simpson
p. designer Tom Sayer
w. Colin McLaren
ed. Bert Eeles
m. Jennifer and Hazel Wrigley
exec. p. Catherine Aitken, Stephen Cleary
p. man. and ass. d. David Tarvit
p. ass. Jessie Lewis
continuity Dylan Matthews
make-up Stephen Murphy
stills ph. Ian Dodds
runner Nigel Smith
catering Alison Robinson
steadicam operator Alastair Rae
focus puller Hannah Rumsby
clapper loader Simon Vickery
gaffer Roddy Kippen
grip Lucien Grieve
crane operator John Kelly
sd. rec. Robert Anderson
boom operator Jez Curnow
art d. Margaret Reeves, Mike McLoughlin
stand-by props Laurel Wear
art dept. ass. Alex Purbrick
dubbing mixer Bronek Korda
ass. dubbing mixer Derek Livesey
music recording Roy Ashby
negative cutter Jim Heffernan
ass. film ed. Rachel Seiffert

Special thanks Area 5 Productions, British Red Cross (Edinburgh Branch), Raclan Properties, Hillier Parker, Melville Motors, Hammerhead Television Facilities, Arts and Media Catering, Jenny House, Ecosse Couriers.

"Prime Cuts". A Fantoosh Film / Area 5 Production for the Scottish Film Production Fund, British Screen and Scottish Television in association with The Scottish Arts Council. Music supported by The Scottish Arts Council. The story, or names, characters or incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious, no identification with actual persons is intended or should be inferred. © Fantoosh Films 1996.