Telephone Tricks - IEC
1/2 inch open-reel videotape unknown Unknown c1970 20:21
Summary: A black-and-white video revealing three different scenes: a room; a direct-animation amateur collage; a school skit about kings and queens. The film is made at the Basement with the Intermediate Education Centre (IEC) which comprised of young people aged 12 to 16.
Title number: 21520
LSA ID: LSA/28223
Description: The first 6 minutes of the video are damaged. In the next decipherable sequence, we see two young white women, one on the telephone. A cut reveals that the telephone can stand up on its own, and a man screams jokingly in response.
The next sequence reveals a steel-pan drum performance by various children as a teacher roams around the room instructing the young ones.
Another skit reveals kids giggling in a room, with one man narrating like a game-show which he names ‘This is Your Life’. The camera variously turns to different individuals and groups who laugh.
A young boy lies prostrate on a table, while another person pretends to hammer them and saws them in a fake operation.
Credits: Basement Project (Producer)
Locations: East London
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