Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 1483 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
ANOTHER COUNTRY | 1985 | 1985-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: Super 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 15 mins Credits: Leeds Movie Makers Cameraman Dave Martin Written and Directed by John R. Wilson Subject: ARTS / CULTURE |
Summary Made by members of the Leeds Movie Makers, this is a fictional film of a spooky tale set on the North York Moors. |
Description
Made by members of the Leeds Movie Makers, this is a fictional film of a spooky tale set on the North York Moors.
Title: 'Leeds Movie Makers present 'Another Country' 'Cameraman Dave Martin' 'Written and Directed by John R. Wilson'
The title and credits appear against a background of rolling country, a country railway station and cliffs. The film begins showing Whitby from various vantage points before a man arrives at Whitby Railway Station and...
Made by members of the Leeds Movie Makers, this is a fictional film of a spooky tale set on the North York Moors.
Title: 'Leeds Movie Makers present 'Another Country' 'Cameraman Dave Martin' 'Written and Directed by John R. Wilson'
The title and credits appear against a background of rolling country, a country railway station and cliffs. The film begins showing Whitby from various vantage points before a man arrives at Whitby Railway Station and looks at the notice board for the North York Moors Railway. He sits down in the Station caf?, looks at a painting of a steam train on the wall, and places an order. He then asks the waitress where he has seen her before, possibly on a train, but she dismisses this. He thinks to himself that he did see her on a train when going from Whitby to Grosmont. The film returns back in time to show him boarding a train which sets off. Here, he is examining a NYMR timetable from 1980. Sitting opposite him is a woman he thinks is the waitress, and the two of them get into a conversation about steam trains.
He get off at Grosmont and walks to the NYMR Station where 'The North Yorkshireman' steam engine is about to set off. He watches the countryside pass by from within the carriage. At Goathland he gets off and makes his way up to the moors. After an hour or so walking on the moors he stops to have his sandwiches, only to discover that he forgot to pack his flask. He decides to go further to find a drink. After a while he comes across a cottage. A woman comes out and he asks her for a drink, but she ignores him and goes back inside. He follows her in. Inside he calls for her without any response. Then a large gruesome man walks into the room, ignores him, and walks out through another door. Through the frosted glass of a door he can see the two of them struggling together. The traveller leaves and runs off, dropping his bag on the way out.
After running some distance he eventually falls to the ground in front of a policeman who is also dressed in an old fashioned uniform. As he turns to lead the policeman back to the cottage, he reluctantly follows leaving his bicycle behind. At the cottage it turns out to be a ruin and the policeman explains that he isn't the first to see ghosts at the cottage. The policeman tells the traveller the story of what had happened at Moor End cottage many years ago when the husband came home unexpectedly one day to accuse his wife of being unfaithful. The scene of him attacking his wife and her stabbing him with a knife is re-enacted. The policeman explains that they weren't found for several days and there was a rumour that there was third person there. Nobody has lived there since then in the last war. The man follows the policeman then asks, 'what do you mean the last war?' He replies, '1914-18, The Great War', and as he does so he fades out leaving the man looking flabbergasted.
But then he emerges as if out of a dream and is still sitting in the caf? where the waitress asks if he is alright. But as she clears his table he notices her old bracelet.
The film ends with, 'the past is another country; things are different there . . . '
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