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| HARD DAY'S LIFE | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 981 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Comedy category - the tale of a young girl who wins- and loses- £1m. Everything is going wrong - she is behind with the rent; arrives late at the hairdressers where she works and is given a warning by her boss; the customers get on her nerves. Then she hears the radio DJ announce the winning ticket number in a £1m competition. She realises she has won - shouts that her boss can keep his job, and dashes out of the shop, bumping into a passing tramp. Dancing around in delight, the winning ticket falls unnoticed out of her pocket. She arrives home to a notice to quit from her landlord. As she searches for the ticket the camera pans outside to a shot of the tramp in a chauffeur driven limousine. Entry from students of South Mersey College. | |||
| THE FLY - SHORTCUT TO A NIGHTMARE | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 982 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Comedy category - a streetwise fly's view of life. Bruce, the fly, surveys the aftermath of a hectic party. He is about to eat a leftover sausage roll, when a slumbering party-goer wakes and leaves the house, taking the sausage roll with him. Bruce and friend Daphne give chase. The sausage roll is eventually eaten by a dog, and Bruce succumbs to a can of fly spray. Entry from The Films with Guts Production Co. Liverpool University. | |||
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| QUIRKY PEOPLE | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 983 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Direction category - a zany presenter examines the eccentricity of the suburbs, and finds true love through a newspaper advertisement. Entry from students of Liverpool Polytechnic. | |||
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| WILDLIFE AT ONE A.M. | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 984 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Comedy category - an Attenborough-like narrator describes the animalistic courtship patterns of a group of young people at a nightclub. Entry from students of Salford College of Technology. | |||
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| CALL ME JACK | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 985 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Drama category - a modern Jack the Ripper tale. Entry from students of Clwyd College of Art & Design Technology. | |||
| THE RENTAL MAN | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 986 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Direction category - a horror film fan is imprisoned in a video. Entry from 051 Performance. | |||
| TEETH - A MODERN FAIRY TALE | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 987 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Direction category - a heroin addict meets the tooth fairy. Entry from students of Altrincham Grammar School for Boys. | |||
| THE QUESTION | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 988 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Drama category - a psychiatrist interviews a murderer; a newly qualified psychiatrist in her first session with one of the more disturbed patients on a mental illness ward somewhere in Liverpool. Entry from students of Wirral Metropolitan College. | |||
| A DIFFERENT PLACE | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 989 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Direction category - two blindfolded hostages imagine the sights and sounds of the countryside and seaside. Entry from Tourtured Amateur Productions. | |||
| COLD COMFORT | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 990 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Experimental category - images of a mother and child safe and warm in their home are contrasted with a vagrant in search of shelter. Entry from students of Manchester Polytechnic. | |||
| GHOSTLITE | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 991 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Drama category - a murdered husband comes back to haunt his killers. Entry from students of the Clwyd College of Art and Design Technology. | |||
| THE SEARCH FOR REALITY | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 992 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Drama category - a girl trying to write a realistic script ends up in the electric chair. Entry from students of Salford College of Technology. | |||
| GILBERT | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 993 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Special Craft category - a dramatisation of the Charlotte Bronte poem, 'Gilbert'. Entry from students of Salford College of Technology. | |||
| 80 YEARS ON | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 994 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Special Craft category - a ghost story set around a textile mill in New Mills. Entry from students of Stockport College. | |||
| CONTAMINATED OPAQUE BODIES | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 995 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Experimental category - pollution documentary; gaunt faced figures wearing dark glasses to protect eyes from the suns rays, and breathing masks to protect against fumes, depict a humanity slowly dying from pollution. Entry from students of Southport College. | |||
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| A STATE OF INDEPENDENCE - SALFORD 1991 | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 996 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Documentary category - highlighting the problems of 13 to 18 year olds in the inner city Salford area; showing the inadequacies of facilities for them, and what one youth group, the State of Independence, is doing to tackle the problems. Entry from The State of Independence. | |||
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| OUR CHILDREN'S WORLD | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 997 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Experimental category - an environmental film set in the near future. The air is difficult to breathe; humanity has become nocturnal as the suns rays burn on contact. In a flashback sequence a man reflects on past attitudes and attempts to arrest the damage. Entry from students of Preston College. | |||
| ROBERTS OYSTER ROOMS | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 998 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Documentary category - a history of Blackpool's famous oyster restaurant, established in 1876. Entry from students of Blackpool and The Fylde College. | |||
| PENDLE WITCHES | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 999 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Special Craft category - a drama documentary which examines the Lancaster witch trials of 1612. Starting with the typical image of the witches cauldron, the video looks at the events which result in the death of 10 Lancashire women, whom it describes as 'poor simple women, wrongly accused.' Entry from students of Salford College of Technology. | |||
| A QUICK LOOK AT KUNG FU | |||
| Date: 1990 Film Number: 1000 | |||
| Visual Search (The Granada Film and Video Awards): Documentary category - a look at Kung Fu, Kick Boxing and the Chinese Lion Dance. Liverpool Tiger Crane Style Kung Fu & Lion Dance Club. | |||
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