Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22505 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
FOOTSTEPS | 1969 | 1969-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 4 mins 12 secs Credits: Brian Dunckley Genre: Amateur Subject: Family Life |
Summary A romantic comedy produced by Brian Dunkley told entirely from the perspective of the characters' legs and feet. Featuring the appendages of Alison Scott and Richard Bishop, the film follows the romantic entanglements of one woman as she meets, dates, marries and finally has a child with her future husband. |
Description
A romantic comedy produced by Brian Dunkley told entirely from the perspective of the characters' legs and feet. Featuring the appendages of Alison Scott and Richard Bishop, the film follows the romantic entanglements of one woman as she meets, dates, marries and finally has a child with her future husband.
Title: Footsteps ‘feeturing’ Alison Scott and Richard Bishop [over animated footprints]
A woman slips her feet into a pair of new black shoes, trying them on in her bedroom....
A romantic comedy produced by Brian Dunkley told entirely from the perspective of the characters' legs and feet. Featuring the appendages of Alison Scott and Richard Bishop, the film follows the romantic entanglements of one woman as she meets, dates, marries and finally has a child with her future husband.
Title: Footsteps ‘feeturing’ Alison Scott and Richard Bishop [over animated footprints]
A woman slips her feet into a pair of new black shoes, trying them on in her bedroom. Strolling along a high street past a row of shops, she pauses. A man in a pair of dark shoes approaches. She drops a handkerchief attempting to attract the man and turns towards a shop window, but he walks past. She stamps a foot in frustration. A different pair of shoes, and a man stops at the hankie. The woman turns. Perhaps a little flirting occurs and the two walk off together.
The woman’s slingback shoes sit on a colorful rug beside the bed. The woman rushes over and slips them on. She grabs her jacket from the bed and rushes out of the house.
A man wearing tanned loafers leans up against a lamp post. He stubs out a cigarette with his foot. The woman, obviously late, rushes along a pavement and attempts to cross a road. She steps back suddenly to avoid being run over and taps her left foot as she waits for a safe time to cross. Beside the lamp post a collection of cigarette stubs is accumulating, another being stubbed out by the tanned loafers. He turns towards the woman as she approaches. She stops beside him before they both go off together.
They sit at opposite ends of a park bench before sliding slowly towards each other until they sit side-by-side. They walk together through a park before turning to face each other. Suddenly she stamps her foot in annoyance before marching away from the man. He kicks a stone in and begins to walk off in the opposite direction. Their first lovers' tiff.
The man in tanned loafers walks up and down nervously outside a red telephone box before going inside to make a call. At the woman’s home, a telephone sits on a table as she comes down stairs to answer the phone. Inside the phone box, the tanned loafers turn towards the phone as he appears to be speaking intently. Back in the house, the woman appears to listen intently to what he says.
The man arrives at her home with a bouquet of flowers. He rubs his shoe against the back of his trouser leg to clean it as the door opens and the woman stands there. He leans towards her and they kiss, her leg raised coyly. They go inside.
Once again the woman’s shoes sit on a rug beside the bed. They transform in colour from black to white. She slips her stockinged feet stockings into the white shoes, lifting her white wedding dress slightly. Confetti is scattered on the ground around the new bride.
The man in the tanned loafers paces up and down in a hospital waiting room. A nurse in dark stockings and shoes appears and walks over to the man, a white blanket hanging down beside her.
The couple walk together, this time pushing a pram. The film ends with a little knitted baby’s shoe falling from the pram and the couple standing over it.
End title: The End
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