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Title: CLAWS

Reference number: 7590

Date: 1976

Director: ph. Neil Castell and Bob Gray

Sound: mute

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: Fiction

Running time: 5.53 mins

Description: Spoof disaster movie in which a cat goes on the rampage in Dunfermline, devouring people, cars and trains, before it is finally blown up by an atomic explosion .... or is it?

See also ref 7591

Shotlist: [shotlisted from DVD - chapter timings used]

A Shoestring Production - In the Beginning . . - c/u shot mouse - cat in kitchen - mouse attacked by 'furry thing' - But . . . . that was not enough - tilt up line of increasingly large paw prints to title - gvs mouse and cat, toy dog - toy dog is attacked, leaving only its collar (1.01) shot of woman walking down garden path from house, is attacked, leaving only tennis shoes and small pool of blood - shots of Wolseley 16-60 driving along Garvock Terrace in Dunfermline - 'thing' attacks, leaving car wheel rolling along road - c/u shots cat on Commercial School bridge and diesel train passing underneath - cat leaps, camera pans round and train has disappeared - gvs deserted streets in Dunfermline, including New Row, High Street with Regal Cinema and Town Hall (2.00) c/u Evening News billboard, 'Town Evacuated, Cat Hunters Called In' - 'hunter' with net tries to catch something behind wall, is pulled out of sight - c/u shot of ambulance - c/u tilt up body of 'doctor', joins another 'doctor' sitting on grass - second doctor answers telephone, then they carry stretcher across field to recover body parts of 'hunter', but drop a severed leg on return (3.45) second 'hunter' appears carrying box with 'Acme Burp Gun' - c/u tin of baked beans - Think About It! - hunter fills gun with beans, approaches corner of building and aims, but is attacked by 'thing', only his hat remains (4.26) two doctors flip a coin, one is sent towards building to sweep up remains of hunter - Desparate Measures Were Needed - another man approaches building with 'Acme H Bomb', throws it and it lands next to cat - gv atomic explosion - two doctors watch and point - The End caption on human skull - . . . Or Is It? - shot of moon and cat walking on lunar landscape (5.53)