Filmed during the period, September 1961 to March 1962 over 20 afternoons. This is a film by the students of Form 3A at Ushaw Moor Secondary School, County Durham, whereby the work included film teaching, scripting, location shooting, acting, music teaching, sound recording and film and sound editing. Scripted after their own stories, this amusing film is about a lower middle-class adolescent boy given the chore of buying groceries for his mother but spends the time mucking about with his friends and terrorising the neighbours. During this little outing, he spots a half crown coin lying in the gutter, which he splurges with his friends on sweets - but where has the grocery money gone?
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ACMI Identifier
321188
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Audio-visual education
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - Production and direction
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Sound - Recording and reproducing
Amateur & Student Films → Student films - Great Britain
Childrens Films → Children 12+
Childrens Films → Films by children
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art in education
Crafts & Visual Arts → Arts, European
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Audio-visual education
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Education, Secondary
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Music teachers, Training of
Music & Performing Arts → Music teachers, Training of
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)