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Title: PLEASANT PLACE, a

Reference number: 8546

Date: 1969

Director: d. Margaret Tait

Production company: Ancona Films

Sound: sound

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 19.47 mins

Description: Film seems to tackle frustrations in communication in the relationship between two men and a woman, which are resolved in the end? Shot in Kirkwall and surrounding area.

Ola Gorie, who plays Helen in the film is renowned Orcadian jewellery designer, and one of the founders of the modern craft movement in Scotland.

Credits: [cast]
Helen Ola Gorie
Malcolm David Birch
Andrew Rodney Groundwater

music played by Hugh Inkster and Jim Robertson

Directed and edited by Margaret Tait from a screenplay by Alex Pirie.
Camera Douglas Shearer