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Title: RING OF TRUTH, the

Reference number: 7665

Date: 1996

Director: d. Richard Downes

Sponsor: Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Film Production Fund present in association with BBC Scotland and Channel 4

Producer: Alistair Scott

Production company: Lomond Television

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Certificate: 12

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 29.48 mins

Description: Set in the Necropolis graveyard, Glasgow. A comic and magical tale about the meaning of life and a hunt for a missing diamond ring. An ex-B movie starlet and her daughter search for the ring, lost many years ago whilst the mother was making love with a travelling salesman. Their antics are observed by a small boy who is spending the day with his Grandfather, the custodian of the graveyard. As the story unfolds, the day at the graveyard moves from comedy and tragedy to magic, fantasy and resurrection. [Source: You've SEEN THE NEGATIVE, NOW SEE THE POSITIVE: Scottish Screen Short Film Catalogue 1993-1999]

Production file held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

Credits: w. Bill Douglas
In memory of Bill Douglas 1934 - 91

Cast in order of appearance
Grandad Jimmy Logan
Willy Craig Hemmings
Mother Annie Ross
Young Woman Libby McArthur
Priest Laurance Rudic
Undertaker Steven McNicoll
Deaf Woman Ida Schuster
Disabled Father Bill Kidd
Hat Lady Hope Ross, Joanna Tope
Moguls Wife Trish Lynch
Moguls Son Neil Herriot
Young Annie Pauline Lockhart
Tom Rodney D. Stevens

With additional support from The University of Strathclyde Bicentenary Fund and Department of English Studies Strathclyde Regional Council, Glasgow City Council

Thanks to Peter Jewell, Andrew Noble, Glasgow City Parks & Recreation Department, Strathkelvin District Council Leisure and Recreation Services, Cadder Parish Church, Lizars Glasgow, Moss Brothers Glasgow

"I'll String Along With You" composed by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. Published by B. Feldman and Co. Ltd. Performed by Miriam Stockley and Bob Saker

sc. ed. Chris Dolan
casting d. Mairi Wilson
2nd ass. d. Jonathan Farmer
3rd ass. d. Anneli Downing
production driver James Brown
runner Peter Haggarty
production trainee Tim Bain
production co-ordinator June Toner
production accounts Lauren Jarvis
continuity Jo Johnstone
make-up ass. Dianne Jamieson
make-up trainee Nicola Knowles
wardrobe Fiona King
lighting electrician Donny Campbell
electricians Michael Carr, Arthur Donnelly
grip Derek Kerr
animal handling David Stewart
stand-by props Ed Wardle, Garaham Dugan
stand-by carpenetr Chris Higson
scene ass. Finlay McAllister
sculptor Kenneth MacKay
boom operator Kenny Allan
focus puller Oliver Cheesman
clapper loader Alick Fraser
make-up artist Irene Napier
sd. rec. Mike Thomas
dubbing mixer Bronek Korda
ass. dubbing mixer Derek Livesy
special digital effects Digital Arts, London
costume designer Caroline Scott
production man. / 1st ass. d. Graeme Gordon
p. designer Campbell McAllister
film ed. Jan Leman
m. Philip Appleby
d. ph. Garry Morrison
exec. p. Catherine Aitken, Alan J. Wands, May Miller
p. Alistair Scott

A Lomond Production for the Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Film Production Fund in association with BBC Scotland and Channel 4.

Lomond Television Limited MCMXCVI (A Broadcast Communications Company)