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Film Number

7384

Title

THE BALL OF STRING

Producer

Liver Cine Group

Date

*1977

Gauge

spr8mm

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Running Time

2 mins 49 secs

Description

Comedy short about a man suffering from toothache. He tries to take some painkillers but they don't work. His wife enters the room and offers to extract the tooth with pliers but he refuses. Eventually she attaches the tooth to a piece of string, the other end of which is tied to a door handle. A stranger unwittingly opens the door inwards which hits the man and knocks a tooth out - the wrong one.

[Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]

 

 



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