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THE MAGIC CHAIRS

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WORK ID: YFA 6320 (Master Record)

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THE MAGIC CHAIRS1974 1974-01-01
Details Original Format: Standard 8
Colour: Colour
Sound: Silent
Duration: 2 mins 6 secs
Credits: Filmmaker Walter Gill


Summary
This film shows schoolchildren enjoying a spell of magic as their school chairs take on a life of their own, with help from a wizard.
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This film shows schoolchildren enjoying a spell of magic as their school chairs take on a life of their own, with help from a wizard. Title: The Magic Chairs The film opens showing children walking along a street to a town centre school. At the school children come out into the schoolyard carrying their chairs. One of the pupils appears on screen wearing pointed magician's or wizard's hat and a magic stick or wand. In the yard the children stand in a row next to their chairs....
This film shows schoolchildren enjoying a spell of magic as their school chairs take on a life of their own, with help from a wizard. Title: The Magic Chairs The film opens showing children walking along a street to a town centre school. At the school children come out into the schoolyard carrying their chairs. One of the pupils appears on screen wearing pointed magician's or wizard's hat and a magic stick or wand. In the yard the children stand in a row next to their chairs. The magician walks past them and waves the wand at each chair. The magician sits on the first chair and then everyone follows and sits on their own chair. The chairs and passengers move swiftly across the yard like a train. In another part of the yard two chairs are placed far apart. A boy leaps of one chair and with only a few long jumps he leaps onto the second chair. Three boys holding hands then do a similar trick. More rapid movement with chairs now in groups of four, racing across the schoolyard. Then the chairs move in a way which resembles a dance with individuals moving across the yard in patterns. The magician or wizard character appears again on his own, faces the camera and disappears. The film ends as the schoolchildren carry their chairs back to the school building. Title: the end
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