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Title: SOME DISTANT DAY

Reference number: 7801

Date: 2004

Director: d. Vincent Hunter

Sponsor: Scottish TV, Grampian TV, Scottish Screen

Producer: Marie Olesen

Production company: Autonomi

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 24.00 mins

Description: A documentary essay which takes a very personal and idiosyncratic journey through Scottish history and identity, from the reformation of John Knox to the present day via the Industrial Revolution. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Scottish Short Films 2004"]

Part of 'This Scotland' documentary strand, broadcast on STV.

This title can be purchased on DVD from Autonomi website at http://www.autonomi.tv/shop.html [last accessed 7/12/2009] Part of a compilation entitled "Four Short Films about Scotland" The other titles on the DVD include refs. 7560 and 7944

Some Distant Day takes the form of a visual essay which sets out to explore and comment on several different aspects of Scottish culture and history from past to present, to see what might lie beneath our ideas of nationhood. Through the use of four chapter headings [Religion, Industry, Eden and Enlightenment] we follow in the wake of a solitary narrator - Thomas - as he looks back at some of the elements which have gone into the making of the modern Scottish character. From the Calvin-inspired reformation of John Knox to the dawn of the factory system and the industrial revolution and on into our own century, we accompany Thomas as he questions the roles of religion and work, time and memory, in creating our sense of who we are. [information last accessed 23/1/2009, source is no longer online]

Credits: w. Jim Ferguson, Vincent Hunter

Thanks to Savoy Centre, Margaret Duggan, Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre, George Geddes, Brunswick Hotel, Ian Crook, NTL Bellshill, Stuart Elliot, St. Giles Cathedral, Gypsy Lee, Carluke Primary School, Iain Simpson, Hillhead Primary School, Shop Mobility Glasgow, John Knox House, Edinburgh Film Focus, New Lanark Trust, Tommy Fairfield, Glasgow Housing Association, Eddie McAndrews, Scottish Power, Andy Wilson, Scottish Wildlife Trust, GMAC

Archive courtesy of Scottish TV Library Services, Glasgow City Council (Museums), Scottish Parliament Broadcasting, The Herald and Evening Times Picture Archive, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Cast
Thomas Emmett McSheffrey
John Knox Jim Ferguson
Woman in T-Shirt Lynette Gray
Man in Bathroom Paul McNamara
Male Voice R. Jeffers
Woman in Hotel Josie Smith
Artist Sunniva Caro
Young Thomas Vigo Love
Fortune Teller Kirsty Miller
Female Voice Louise Ludgate

camera lighting Ray Tallan
art d. Paul McNamara
sd. rec. Cameron Mercer
PA Elizabeth Currie
p. designer Adam Squires
special effects Perry Costello
accountant Ian Reid
m. Daniel Padden
add. m. Palomino
sd. design John Cobban
rostrum John Butler
online ed. Ian Ballantyne
ed. and ass. p. Zam Salim
exec. p. Henry Eagles, Becky Lloyd, Agnes Wilkie