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Title: SIMPLE SIMON

Reference number: 3916

Date: 1964*

Director: d. Robert Horn

Sponsor: Educational Films of Scotland

Production company: SEFA (Glasgow Group)

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 6.32 mins

Description: Puppet show depicting the nursery-rhyme 'Simple Simon'. The puppets enact the rhyme and then hold up words to practise reading.

Winner of the Glasgow Cup for Best Educational Film and joint winner of Kodak Prize.at the Scottish Amateur Film Festival, 1965.

Credits: camera and d. Robert Horn
infant advisor and puppet creator Marian Mowat
puppeteer Olive Thomson
scenery Thomas Walsh

Shotlist: curtains open on papier-mache puppet show with painted background Simple Simon (0.23) Simple Simon met a Pieman, gvs same (0.34) Going to the Fair Says Simple Simon to the Pieman c/u of pies (1.03) Let me taste your ware Says the Pieman to Simple Simon puppets converse, Pieman shakes his black leather moneybag (1.24) Show me first your penny puppets converse (1.33) Says Simple Simon to the Pieman shot of Simple Simon crying Indeed I have not any (1.49) curtains close and open (2.00) repeat of previous sequence with intertitles (2.53) Simple Simon and the Pieman play around with words and their order to make up the correct rhyme outlined previously (4.26) Now Read various words from the rhyme are held up by puppets GOOD-BYE puppets kiss and wave goodbye (6.04) ecs (6.32)