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Title: FIRST REELS INTERVIEW: Penny Dolan, Off Your Trolley

Reference number: 8211

Date: 1993

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Description: 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: [interviewee Penny Dolan]

Shotlist: Raw interview footage with director Penny Dolan, concerning her short film OFF YOUR TROLLEY, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television's First Reels scheme.

Discusses: Plot:- The world of a supermarket as a place where a consumer can buy in to a fantasy. Where your imagination can literary run riot, and even adopt a different persona. Basically its about thinking the bizarre, while doing the mundane. Two day shoot, 5 - 6 weeks work all in. Very tight schedule from start to finish. The opening shot features a trolley coming into a supermarket, and a couple there - relationship in torment. There is a torture sequence, there is doubt between the fantasy or reality of the situation. Another scene depicts four shoppers taking food from a freezer - in complete sync. Other scenes feature a policeman, a 'gondolier in Safeway'! Film-maker says her favourite part of film is the "peanut butter smearer".