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Title: WHEELS

Reference number: 7646

Date: 1994

Director: d. Brian Ross

Sponsor: The Scottish Film Production Fund

Producer: Barbara McKissack

Production company: Navigator Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Certificate: 12

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 17.47 mins

Description: "Wheels" is a comedy short, set during the summer of 1982. "Come on Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners is at the top of the music charts and in the towns of Britain, cars, Citizen Band radios and alcohol are the icons of popular youth culture. Imagine an American 'bubblegum / cruising' movie, substitute the drinking of vodka down alleyways for milk-shakes in diners, vinyl roofed Ford Escorts for open top Chevrolets, and the High Street of a small Scottish highland town for the sidewalks of middle America, and you get some idea of the atmosphere and style of "Wheels". [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.

Short comedy about Janice, a Citizens Band radio fanatic whose handle is `The Mobile Lady', but is static as she cruises the CB airwaves from her top floor room in a Highland town housing scheme. She needs wheels but is insulted by her boyfriend's answer, an Eastern European MZ 250 motorbike. She never wants to see him again, but that's a tall order in a small town Friday night which starts as a nightmare and ends with the realisation of their dreams. [synopsis from BFI SIFT database http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/523029, last accessed 19/8/2010]

Credits: Janice Iona Carbarns
Don Richard Banks
Cat Bruce Morton
Bojangles Nicky Campbell
Commander Cody Jimmy Chisholm
Laura Lindsey Lee-Wilson
Val Pauline Lockhart
Sir Galahad Charles Jamieson
Tainer Morgan Petrie
Colin David McQueer

With thanks for financial assistance to Norfrost Limited, Ross & Cromarty District Council, Ross & Cromarty Enterprise, Grampian Television

Special thanks to Everyone in Tain - for their help and patience, all the car owners, Robin Crichton, Mike the Bike, Brian Grigor, Willie Doig, James Simpson, Peter Whiteley and Jamie Stone

Filmed entirely on location in Tain, Ross & Cromarty

reliant van supplied by Dan Thomson
sd. trainee Tristan Anika
p. trainee Amanda Whitehead
floor runner Julie Morrison
p. runners Kirstin Bannerman, Louise Raffan
publicity Andrew Raffan
stills ph. Richard Easson
storyboard artist Walter McCrorie
electrician Mick Carr
art dept. ass. Mike Gunn, Tom Sayer
video ass. Grum Robertson
clapper loader Ruth Clark
boom operator Andrea Seath
third ass. d. Ted Mitchell
second ass. d. Miglet Crichton
p. accountant Sandra Watson
grip Chris Hill
sc. supervisor Lucy Enfield
focus puller Lorna Will
dubbing ed. Alex McLaren
dubbing mixer Cy Jack
post p. Soho Images
locations man. Ali Turnbull
make-up artist Kathleen MacKintosh
costume designer Tiela Dellanzo
gaffer electrician Donny Campbell
first ass. d. Ian Fraser
sd. rec. Becky Thomson
p. co-ordinators Barbara Taylor, Sylvia Blyth
m. Steven Christie
film ed. Peter Blackie
associate p. Catherine Aitken
p. designer Jacqueline Smith
d. ph. Patrick Duval
p. Barbara McKissack
w. and d. Brian Ross

A Navigator Films Production for The Scottish Film Production Fund
© Navigator Films Ltd. 1994

Shotlist: Short comedy about Janice, a Citizens Band radio fanatic whose handle is `The Mobile Lady', but is static as she cruises the CB airwaves from her top floor room in a Highland town housing scheme. She needs wheels but is insulted by her boyfriend's answer, an Eastern European MZ 250 motorbike. She never wants to see him again, but that's a tall order in a small town Friday night which starts as a nightmare and ends with the realisation of their dreams. [synopsis from BFI SIFT database http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/523029]