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Title: MICHAEL'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

Reference number: 9033

Date: 1972c

Director: filmed by George Gibson

Sound: silent

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 6.14 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a children's birthday party and brief shots at a horse show.

Film-maker was George Gibson, a keen amateur and a member of a cine club in Dundee at the time.

Shotlist: [reel 1] [no title] - int shots in house, children in living room, woman pouring out drinks - children drinking lemonade and making faces at the camera - shot of snacks on table - women handing out hot sausage rolls and napkins to children - gvs of children eating (2.37) black and leader (2.51) [reel 2] woman brings in birthday cake on trolley, lights candles as children walk round - boy blows out candles and cake is cut - gvs children dancing, boys pushing each other around - birthday boy gives out presents to other children and gets kisses (5.23) brief shots at horse show, three young women on horses (6.14)