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Title: SAD TO SAY BUT SAMMY IS DEAD

Reference number: 8132

Date: 1996

Director: d. Margaret Reeves

Sponsor: The Scottish Film Council, Scottish Television Centenary Reels Scheme

Producer: Hannah Lewis

Production company: Life's Work Productions. Made with the assistance of the Scottish Film School, Napier University

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 12.00 mins

Description: Set in Australia, a little girl speaks about her pet called Sammy. All that is seen of the pet is the shoebox he was kept in. The girl takes him to show and tell at school. Eventually her pet dies through lack of food, and she buries him in a bucket of sand.

Excerpt from this film can be viewed online at http://www.kennethsimpson.com/movie_pages/sammy.html [last accessed 16/07/2020]

'Suburban Australia' featured in this film was actually re-created in a warehouse in Edinburgh. Part of the Centenary Reels film scheme, funded by Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television.

Originally shot on 16mm.

Credits: w. Margaret Reeves
designed Margaret Reeves
ed. Margaret Reeves
d. ph. Kenneth Simpson
m. and sd. design Mark Lister

Little Girl Joanna Peddie
School Teacher Elizabeth Strachan
Keith Colin James
'X-Ray' Girl Nikki Lunan
'Clemintine' Boy Brian Botha
Boy in Line Peter Liu
Mother Pauline Peddie
Radio Announcer Rod McNeil
TV Presenter Emily Canter
TV Announcer Lawrie Bruce

ass. d. Simon Vickery, Steven Murphy
ass. p. Mairi Millar
focus puller Kirsty Dawson
clapper / loader Mairi Millar
grip Lucien Grieve
stills ph. Alison Murphy
sd. rec. Jez Curnow
dubbing mixer Tim Rickets
set construction Mike McLaughlin, Tom Sayer
art dept. ass. James Allan, Helen Reeves
costume design Helen Reeves
continuity Andy Short
children's chaperone Penny Roberts
non-linear ed. Keith Bowman
model maker Margaret Reeves
miniature ph. Simon Vickery, Kenneth Simpson

film stock Kodak
film processing and prints Rank Film Laboratories
negative cutting Sylvia Wheeler
camera equipment The Scottish Film School, Napier University
recording studios Astronaut Canteen

Special thanks Beth Reeves and Hugh and Betty Reeves
Thanks Heather Harrison, ABC Radio Melbourne, Edinburgh Direct Aid, Edinburgh District Arts Council, Bruntsfield Primary School, Edinburgh Acting School, Perry Costello, Benholm, Douglas Chatham, Great Mills DIY, Hannah Rumsby, Jewsons, John Lessels Landscaping, Alex Somerville, Rainbow Guides, Roderick Graham, A Touch of Paradise, Viewforth Travel

"One of These Things" by Joe Raposo and Bruce Hare used by permission of Instructional Children's Music Inc. and the Children's Television Workshop.

"Madge Palmolive Advertisement" used by permission of Foote, Cone & Belding

Made with the assistance of the Scottish Film School, Napier University
Made with the financial assistance of The Scottish Film Council, Scottish Television Centenary Reels Scheme

Life's Work Productions
© Margaret Reeves 1996