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Title: FIRST REELS INTERVIEW: Duncan Nicoll, Bird of Paradise

Reference number: 8537

Date: 1993

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Description: Raw interview footage with director Duncan Nicoll, concerning his short film BIRD OF PARADISE, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television's First Reels scheme.

See also ref. 7974

Shotlist: Raw interview footage with director Duncan Nicoll, concerning his short film BIRD OF PARADISE, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television's First Reels scheme.

Discusses:- short animated film about having a fantasy and the difficulty of dealing with the fantasy when it becomes a reality. Alone, gazing at picture of bird which to him represents colour and beauty in his otherwise drab surroundings. The man is distracted from gazing at picture when he finds a golden egg outside its door. Waits for it to hatch and then is disappointed, he feels let down and cheated as it's a rather normal looking bird ! Through his inability to deal with the situation he feels only resentment towards the bird and has to take drastic action...