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Title: SMALL DEPOSIT, a

Reference number: 7980

Date: 1993

Director: d. Eleanor Yule

Sponsor: The Scottish Film Production Fund, BBC Scotland

Producer: Paul Holmes

Production company: Brassneck Film and Television

Sound: sound

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 12.07 mins

Description: A Small Deposit begins with a young boy's football playing fantasies and ends with the suspense and intrigue of an elaborate con-trick. Together with the people living in his tenement, Dan swindles a door-to-door salesman who offers exorbitant credit on the hire purchase of luxury items much sought after in the years following the Second World War. [synopsis from Scottish Screen Catalogue of Short Films 1993 - 1999 "Kicking up a Storm"]

Tartan Shorts: A joint short film initiative funded by BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund. Three films per year commissioned for theatrical release and broadcast.

Credits: Tic Man Peter Wright
Annie Eileen McCallum
Gina Alexis Daly
Dan Iain MacKay
James Allan Sharpe
Victoria Katherine Stark
Mary Maureen Carr
Nettie Sandy Armstrong
Small Boy Rikki Harte
Small Girls Ashleigh Oates, Lucy Wild
Mother Susan McCahon
Housewife Elizabeth Reid
Husband Alec Somerville

p. runners Lee Bateman, Marc Page, Richard Yule
design ass. Laura Donnelly
boom operator Jackie Kevan
electrician Andy Stewart
ed. ass. Graham Forsyth
dubbing ed. David Gibson
chief electrician Donny Campbell
grips Iain Johnstone
ass. camera Mike Cuthbert
ass. floor man. Martin Ross
make-up Graham Johnston
costume Fiona King
sd. rec. Mike Thomas
film ed. Colin Monie
m. composer and dubbing mixer Paul Wilson
designer Ali Mills
p. man. Jo Johnstone
d. ph. Garry Morrison
p. exec. for the SFPF [Scottish Film Production Fund] Kate Swan
p. exec. for the BBC Paul Pender
w. Danny McCahon

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