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Title: DANGEROUS GAME

Reference number: 7982

Date: 1993

Director: [filmed by Rae Caven, Meredith Crone, Martin Devine, Martin Gallagher, Jim Harold, Beth Millar, Elsie Mitchell, Alex Russell, Derek Scalan, Janice Sprott]

Sponsor: Strathclyde Regional Council, Monklands Festival [Scottish Film Council, Scottish Television?]

Production company: Co-operations/Rosehall Arts Group

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 7.00 mins

Description: In this brightly coloured animation, Prince Cosmos and Princess Solitaire, bored with their palace lifestyle, decide to go and stay on a desert island in a giant's timeshare. [Loosely inspired by James Bond and Shirley Bassett!]

The animation is a collaboration between three arts workers and a group of six people with special needs. See also ref. 7983 for raw interview footage with Elsie Mitchell, one of the filmmakers.

First Reels - a joint short film initiative from Scottish Screen (and its predecessor body the Scottish Film Council) and Scottish Television. First Reels was launched during 1991 by Scottish Film Council in response to a perceived need for small grants to help young and first time film-makers to make or complete their first film or video project. Scottish Television came in as co-sponsor at an early stage and as well as contributing to half the funds they have given the scheme a tremendous public relations boost by running three half hour documentaries showing excerpts from the First Reels. Applicants were invited to submit projects in any format and on any subject they chose. All entries were considered by a jury and thirty five projects were given grants varying from £50 to £2000. On show at the GFT are a representative selection of the best of the films and videos supported by the scheme. [Editorial from Scottish Film Council held in paper archives]

Credits: filmmakers Rae Caven, Meredith Crone, Martin Devine, Martin Gallagher, Jim Harold, Beth Millar, Elsie Mitchell, Alex Russell, Derek Scalan, Janice Sprott

sd. engineers Stuart MacLeod, Ian James Whitelaw
sd. facilities Petersburn Studios
Special thanks to Rosehall Centre, Glasgow Film and Video Workshop, Johnny Muir, Scottish Film Council, Scottish Television, Fire Station Restaurant

The songs "Goldfinger", "Big Spender" and "No Regrets" are recorded courtesy of EMI Records

funded by Strathclyde Regional Council, Monklands Festival

A Co-operations/Rosehall Arts Group Production © 1993