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Title: LUNIK

Reference number: 7990

Date: 1993c

Director: d. Jim McBride and Rachel Bevan Baker

Sponsor: The Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television

Production company: Edinburgh Film Workshop Trust

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 2.13 mins

Description: Humorous cut-out animation based around the mysterious designer of the Soviet Space Programme during the 1950s and 60s - Sergei Korolev.

Originated on film. See also ref. 8082 for raw interview footage with director Jim McBride about the making of this film.

First Reels - a joint short film initiative from Scottish Screen (and its predecessor body the Scottish Film Council) and Scottish Television. First Reels was launched during 1991 by Scottish Film Council in response to a perceived need for small grants to help young and first time film-makers to make or complete their first film or video project. Scottish Television came in as co-sponsor at an early stage and as well as contributing to half the funds they have given the scheme a tremendous public relations boost by running three half hour documentaries showing excerpts from the First Reels. Applicants were invited to submit projects in any format and on any subject they chose. All entries were considered by a jury and thirty five projects were given grants varying from £50 to £2000. On show at the GFT are a representative selection of the best of the films and videos supported by the scheme. [Editorial from Scottish Film Council held in paper archives]

Credits: A film by Jim McBride and Rachel Bevan Baker
m. John Bevan Baker

Produced with the financial assistance of The Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television
Special thanks to The Drama and Media Dept. Telford College
Edinburgh Film Workshop Trust 1993