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Title: FOUR CAME TO CRIEFF

Reference number: 9298

Date: 1954*

Director: filmed by Dr Iain Dunnachie

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 3.43 mins

Description: The Scottish amateur film-making set have some fun experimenting with 16mm camera trickery during a weekend away at Crieff in the 1950s. Rather unusually, the credits appear towards the end of the film!

Features Adam and Molly Malcolm, among others.

Credits: Celluloid Films present A Star Studded Film. Adam (Molly cuddling) Malcolm and full star cast in a sensational moving drama. Adam Malcolm appears by kind permission. FOUR CAME TO CRIEFF... AND THERE THEY REMAIN. Adam Malcolm is now appearing at Dalkeith.

Shotlist: hot of a couple walking along a country path. A man suddenly appears / pops into the scene and is shown drawing (?) something on the path. More people pop into the scene behind the couple who are walking away. The couple then appear behind the popped people and walk past them. The people watch them walk away. The couple are then shown walking together along another country path. The same people as before suddenly appear beside them to give them gifts (?) as well as obstructing their path. The next shot is blurry and show the couple sitting on the grass as the people (who have become transparent) run around them. Shot of the couple walking back up the path as the transparent people run past and round them. Shoft of the couple lying on the grass again. The woman tries to tickle the man with grass then the people pop up and try to pull her up. The woman then tried to tickle the man again. The man sits up this time and pulls the woman down to grass to kiss her. The couple then walk away together. The people are then shown shaking hands and chatting. The woman is shown crying before a baseball bat appears in her hand and she chases the people while waving the bat around.