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Title: BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE!

Reference number: 6610

Date: 1982, June 7

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 30.00 mins

Description: Enrico Cocozza and local children recite Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' in his flat, Wishaw. [see also ref. 6887]

Credits: A Connoisseur Videogram
Enrico Cocozza presents James McAteer in
also featuring Keith Dow, Marlene Richardson, Rhonda Morrison, William McCabe, Thomas McCabe, Shelley McCabe, Alan Calderwood and 3 cheeky little buggers who threw stones
ph. Enrico Cocozza
technical assistants Thomas McCabe, Keith Dow
m. Cole Porter
Copyright Connoisseur 1982

Shotlist: [shotlisted from Beta SP dubbed in-house from master Betamax LTC timecode]

(01:05:31:15) line drawing two heads facing each other with 'squiggle' between them (01:06:04:13) opening credits and title (01:08:16:20) gvs boys walking down Wishaw street. Playing on swings and on roundabout, playpark. They gather at an abandoned and derelict park area, where there is a run down concrete shell of a building - it has been burnt out in the past and is now covered in graffiti. It looks a little like a stage. Boys recite Shakespeare there. One boy reads a book / play. Cocozza joins the group towards the end of the film and dance in a line, with silliness (01:33:43:23) The End (01:35:24:09)