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Title: FIRST REELS INTERVIEW: Mike Tyson, Hugh's Story

Reference number: 8535

Date: 1993

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Description: Raw interview footage with director Mike Tyson, concerning his short film HUGH'S STORY, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television's First Reels scheme.

See also ref. 8519 for raw, unedited material related to a documentary about Hugh Collins - Saughton "Lifer" sculptor working in Muirhouse. Note Scottish Screen Archive does not currently hold the finished programme - it may well be incomplete (?)

Credits: [camera Stephen O'Donnell
sd. Stuart Major]

Shotlist: Raw interview footage with director Mike Tyson, concerning her short film HUGH'S STORY, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television's First Reels scheme.

Discusses:-
Tape 1:- Portrait documentary on prisoner Hugh Collins, on his life, evolving through the sculpture he is working on for the Muirhouse kids that are dying of AIDS. Background to how the film came about, working with Video in Pilton. September 1992 was date of first meeting with Hugh, and things have evolved since then. Hugh has had a lot of troubles in his life, been through a lot of things and has come through as a remarkable person. Interview with Hugh was done straight in one day. Discusses some of the difficulties faced in filming such as adverse weather.

Tape 2:- Visuals came from going out every week and finding the sculpture changing week to week. Difficult to get information from Hugh about how the sculpture evolves as they weren't interviewing him continuously, they decided to show how progress through the visuals instead, filmed over a period of a year. How Hugh changed his mind during the sculpting process, eg. he decided two babies, one a live and one dead was too morose. Sculpture started end of August 1992, filming started middle September 1992.