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Title: CREATURES OF LIGHT

Reference number: 7876

Date: 1992

Director: d. Bill Anderson

Sponsor: National Film and Television School, Scottish Film Production Fund

Producer: Katherine Hedderly

Production company: National Film and Television School

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 75.00 minsc

Description: Set in the 1850s on Scotland's Isle of Mull. About the development of a relationship after partially lame Fionn takes in Eilidh after she washes up half-frozen in a boat with her hands bound. [synopsis from BFI website catalogue at http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/478265, last accessed 10/2/2009]

Production file held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. Screened at 46th Edinburgh International Film Festival, 1992.

Credits: The National Film and Television School presents a Katherine Hedderly Production.

w. and d. Bill Anderson
designer Ben Scott
d. ph. Pentti Keskimaki
ed. Melanie Adams
sd. rec. Ron Bailey
costume designer Annie Symons
m. composed and conducted Robert Neufeld

Made with financial assistance from The Scottish Film Production Fund

Eilidh Robin McCaffrey
Fionn Paul Higgins
Jean Jenny Lee
Minister Donald Douglas
Father Ralph Riach

The Fishermen
Rob Roy Sampson
James Andy Barr
Tam Billy Riddock
James McCleish, John Sykes, Willie Thorburn, Andy Murray, Steven White, Steve Lancaster, Dave Richey, Tom Bettley, Paul Kirsop, David Salkeld

The Women
Beth Barbara Horne
Gil Richey, Francesca Richey, Val Leckie, Joyce Salkeld, Eileen Malloy, Barbara Bettley. Kim Russell, Christine Bardsley, Mary Bowman, Heather Jappy, Claire Cummings, Elizabeth McCiver, Shona MacKay, Catherine Henderson, Lyndsey McCiver, Juliette Knight, Julie Kirsop, Mabel Aitken, Rachel Watt, Margaret Parker, Val Wood, Emma Wood, Isabel McCleish, Sophie McCleish, Judy Price, Caitlin Henderson, Beth Leckie, Kirsty Canning, Rosa Devlin Holmes, Linda Devlin, Mairi Robertson, Suzi Sharples

Children
Boy Lewis Gallagher
David Goodfellow, Graeme MacNeilage, Alisdair Bardsley

Undertaker Phil Hendry
Fishsmoker Shaun Carmichael
Young Minister Ian Henry
Minister's Wife Annie Symons

casting consultants The Casting Company
1st ass. d. Ian Henry, Ted Thornton
2nd ass. d. Mo Colvin
3rd ass. d. Oscar van Heek, Tom Gearhart
sc. supervisor Richard Max
p. man. Loren Mrkusic
location man. (Mull) Mercedes McGurn
p. co-ordinator (Mull) Nadine Schoen
NFTS co-ordinators Margaret Allison, Petrina Smith
p. ass. Janine Selzer, Ali Turnbull
runner Daniel Betteridge
camera operatirs Roman Osin, Peter Thwaites
camera ass. Robert Shaklady, Chris Bairstow
clapper loader Phil Hendry
electricians Enda Gibney, Robbie Broughton, Alvin Kuchler, Chris Rees
boom operator Mags Scholes
additional sd. rec. Paul Davies, Richard Flynn, Stuart Wilson, Eva Springer
ass. art d. Kate Venner, Andy Nicholson
ass. art d. (Mull) Jack Abrahams, John Jones
art dept. (Mull) Dave Mullins, Mark Blatchford, Alex Ward
construction (Mull) Ira Potter, Martin Savage, James Wooley, Brendan Savage, David Salkeld
art dept (London) Jeff Leyshon, Lucy Reeves, Patricia Fortini
construction (London) John Hand, John Scott
scenic artist Andrew Garnett-Lawson
dry stone walling Alec Clark
nautical propbuyer Donny McQueen
animatronics Ray Scott, Joe Scott
tractor driver Neally McCall
deer handler Trevor Smith
bee handler Paul Hand
cow handlers Donny and Jean McCall, David Barker, Freddie Bosher
make-up and hair designer Louise Ricci
make-up artist Renata Hall
costumer ass. Patricia Fortune
wardrobe ass. Carin Donaldson, Pam Downe, Katherine Fanthorpe, Alex Westover
costumes supplied by Maria Liljefors, The Royal National Theatre, Rith & David Symons
sd. ed. Robert Darvell
ass. sd. ed. Kallis Shamaris
foley artist Pam Finch
dubbing mixer Mike Billing
music recorded at The BBC Recording Studios with The London Philharmonic
originated and printed on Eastman film from Kodak
colour by Technicolor
negative cutters Triad
opticals Film Optic

With special thanks to Paul Dickson, Ernest Walker, Alwyne Compton Farquharson, Trevor Howsam Ltd., Michael Samuelson Lighting, Donny & Jean McCall [... et al ...]

Filmed on location on the Isle of Mull, Scotland and at Beaconsfield Studios, England.

© The National Film and Television School 1992