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Title: FIRST REELS INTERVIEW: Victor Quayle, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?

Reference number: 8530

Date: 1993, September 23

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Description: Raw interview footage with director Victor Quayle, concerning his short film WHY AREN'T YOU DEAD YET?, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television's First Reels scheme.

See also ref. 8012 for complete film.

Credits: [interviewee Victor Quayle

camera Stephen O'Donnell
sd. Stuart Major]

Shotlist: Raw interview footage with director Victor Quayle, concerning his short film WHY AREN'T YOU DEAD YET?, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television's First Reels scheme.

Discusses: What the film is trying to achieve - that there is a new beginning on offer for people over 60. Majority of membership have lost loved ones, the action Castlemilk Pensioners Action Centre offers them a new lease of life. Activities on offer are practical as well as fun - from advice with things such as benefit cheques and housing information to organising holidays, to learning the latest dance steps.