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Title: INITIATION

Reference number: 7533

Date: 1996

Director: d. Martin McCardie

Sponsor: Scottish Film Production Fund and BBC Scotland, Scottish Arts Council

Producer: Angus Lamont

Production company: Ideal World / Wiseguise

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 15.20 mins

Description: The relationship between a father and son is taken to the limit when the workmen at the family firm initiate the boy into his new job. [synopsis from Scottish Screen Catalogue of Short Films 1993 - 1999 "Kicking up a Storm"]

Production file held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. Script also held at the Scottish Theatre Archive, Glasgow University. Ref. code GB 247 STA Jy 17(9)

Tartan Shorts: A joint short film initiative funded by BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund. Three films per year commissioned for theatrical release and broadcast.

Credits: Arthur Kennedy Sean McGinley
Luke Kennedy Steven Duffy
Metal Worker Laurie Ventry

Gary Lewis, Frank Gallagher, David McKay, Stevie Hannan, Steve Hotchkiss, Eric Barlow, Jim Twaddale

d. ph. Alan Stewart
sd. rec. Louis Kramer
ed. James Hamilton
designer Alan Reid
p. man. Su Bainbridge
costume designer Phyllis Byrne
make-up designer Catherine Shirley
composer Michael Marra
performed by Norman Chalmers
studio p. Jed Grimes
1st ass. d. Graeme Gordon
2nd ass. d. Beverley Syme
unit runner Donald McKinnon
unit trainee Paul Shirley
sc. supervisor Lucy Enfield
unit man. Angela Murray
p. ass. Carole Sheridan
costume / make-up ass. Michael Sisson
standby props Chris Cull
art dept. ass. Raymond Young, Mike Oliver, Adam Squires
gaffer Mark Ritchie
grips Ian Maghie
focus puller Ros Naylor
clapper loaders Kenneth Simpson, Alick Fraser
camera trainee Ian Young
boom operator Simon Chirgwin
sd. trainee James Callaghan
sparks Michael Toher, Paul Bates
genny operator Jimmy Dorigan
dubbing ed. Bronek Korda
property master Derek Livesey
stills ph. Alan Wylie

Thanks to Eddie McCardie Snr., Bernard Gray, Jamestown Concrete
Produced with the financial assistance of The Scottish Arts Council

exec. p. Andrea Calderwood, Catherine Aitken.
Tartan Short. Copyright BBC Scotland 1996.