A promotional film produced by Sorel International Production for the Youth Hostels Association (YHA) that features as is main cast three actors from the popular British children’s drama series Grange Hill. The film follows them as they use a special computer programme that allows each of them to go a different adventure available to YHA members. In the film they go cycling, canoeing, horse riding and windsurfing. A desk-top computer with the opening titles on the screen. Title: Enter the...

A promotional film produced by Sorel International Production for the Youth Hostels Association (YHA) that features as is main cast three actors from the popular British children’s drama series Grange Hill. The film follows them as they use a special computer programme that allows each of them to go a different adventure available to YHA members. In the film they go cycling, canoeing, horse riding and windsurfing. A desk-top computer with the opening titles on the screen. Title: Enter the Adventure The back gardens of a row of terraced townhouses in London, the camera moves in on the windows of a loft conversion. Inside a teenager’s bedroom with its owner Gary singing along to a record playing on a record player, around him his two friend Mark and Clare playing accompaniment. Gary’s father comes up the stairs and listens as the three continue to perform. The song come to an end and Gary does a Jimmy Saville impersonation, his father looks on unimpressed. He complains about both the song and about the lack of use of a new computer he brought his son that featured in the opening credits. He picks up a cassette tape which is used for the computer, Gary and Mark say they are bored by the educational software contained on them. Clare impresses the farther by accepting one of the tapes. As the father leaves the Gary and Mark sit on the floor looking through a collection of records, Claire finds another tape which lights up in her hand when she looks at it. She tries to get the boys interested. Coming over Mark puts the cassette into a player and loads the programme onto the computer. All three look at the screen which reads ‘LOADING’ followed by them having a conversation with the computer about various activities it is offering. They choose cycling at Saffron Waldon in Essex. Gary presses the ‘Enter’ button on the keyboard and promptly disappears. Mark and Clare look at the computer screen and see their friend cycling along a road. Gary and a black friend cycle along a country lane passing through a village of whitewashed houses watched by his friends on the computer screen. As they turn into another road and the other boy crashes into a ‘Single Track Road’ sign. Garry approaches a crossroads where three girls sit under a road sign. As he come to a stop his friends speeds past through the intersection with Gary chasing after him. The two cycle through Saffron Waldon arriving at the YHA hostel on Myddylton Place. The hostel warden greets them and takes then inside. Back in his bedroom Gary’s friends look on concerned while in the hostel kitchen Gary tries to make himself a meal. He breaks an egg using his hands, the content falling as a mess into a frying pan. In the hostel dining room other guests enjoying their meal while Gary’s friend sits at a table nearby. Back in his bedroom Gary’s other friends try to find instructions for the computer programme while in the kitchen a pan of ‘blue’ liquid boils over with Gary looking on in disgust. After burning some toast Gary carrying his plate of disgusting looking food into the dining room and sits down beside his friend to eat it. As he prepares to start the warden comes over and places a plate of quiche and salad down for Gary’s friend. Back in the bedroom Mark hits the ‘Return’ key and Gary reappears in the chair still holding a piece of burned toast in his hand. He isn’t happy with his friends for bringing him back as he was ‘having a great time’. He talks to his friends about being a YHA member. Clare takes a seat at the computer and tries to decide what activity to pick. Mark chooses for her and selects canoeing at Welsh Bicknor in Herefordshire. She screams and suddenly appears in a canoe on the River Wye. As she panics and calls out for help, nearby an instructor giving a lesson in canoeing to four students. Seeing Clare in distress the teacher and class race after her as she goes over some rapids. Back in the bedroom the boys look on worried. Clare begins to paddle and passes through the rapids heading towards the shore where two boys stand in the water bringing her canoe to a stop. They play a joke on her turning the canoe over dropping Clare in the water. Everyone laughs including Gary and Mark in the bedroom. On the computer screen the canoeing instructor helping Clare out of her lifejacket, back in Gary’s bedroom one of the boys hits the ‘Return’ button and she re-appears in the chair beside them soaking wet. As she shouts at Mark stating that she could have stayed at the hostel, in a pen near it three small children helping to feed several kids or baby goats with milk from bottles. Back in the bedroom Clare tells Mark it is his turn to pick an activity, Gary agrees. Gary picks for Mark horse-riding at Truleigh Hill in Sussex. After hitting the ‘Enter’ button Mark disappears with Gary and Clare watch him on the monitor riding a horse along the edge of a steep hill. He attempts to control the animal stopping it from racing down the hill. Back in the bedroom Gary tells Mark that ‘Big Brother is watching you’. Clare presses the ‘Enter’ button herself and appears in the saddle of her own horse alongside Mark. As Mark tries to find how to stop his horse, he kicks it and the animal races across the field with Clare chasing after him. The two of them ride across a hill together changing to them arriving with other riders at a YHA hostel, the green triangle of the organisation attached to a nearby gatepost. Back in the bedroom Gary makes a second selection, windsurfing. He hit’s the ‘Enter’ key and appears on a windsurfing board apparently surfing on the sea near a busy beach. He sails his board onto the sand and gets off. He looks around the crowded beach and spots a teenage girl reading a book and sunbathing nearby. As he goes over and introduces himself the film return to the bedroom where Gary’s father has returned looking for his son and his friends. Back on the beach Gary chats happily with the teenage girl quickly changes to Mark and Clare walking over to a group of children sitting around a woman playing a guitar singing ‘Kumbaya, My Lord’. In the background a YHA youth hostel, in the foreground a young man cooking sausages on a barbeque. Back in Gary’s bedroom his father attempt to play Cliff Richard and The Shadows hit ‘Living Doll’ on a guitar. He puts the guitar down and goes over to the computer which is showing a Union Jack on the monitor. Complaining about the cost of electricity he tries to find the power cable to disconnect the computer; on the screen an image of an eye and the word ‘DANGER’. As he continues to find the right cable Mark and Clare still listening to the singing and Mark walking with the girl along a street. Rather than turn off the power, Gary’s dad ejects the cassette from the player placing it beside the computer. As he contemplates hitting the ‘Return’ key Gary and the young woman get romantic in a window at the seaside hostel. As they lean in to kiss Gary, Mark and Clare suddenly reappear in the bedroom after Gary’s dad hits’ the ‘Return’ key. For comic effect Gary still believes he is leaning in for the kiss, he opens his eyes in surprise to see his father staring at him. With his father leaving Gary, Mark and Clare rush over to the computer putting the cassette back into the deck to re-starting the programme. As they wait on it to load, they each decide what activity they will each do next. On the screen the title of a different programme ‘More Fun with Algebra’. Realising they can’t go back Gary holds the tape box in his hand. Again it flashes green lights, the label reading ‘Why not make your OWN program with YHA’. Text on the computer screen reads. Title: Go hostelling on your own with friends or family 250 hostels all over England and Wales. 5000 in 50 other countries Hostels in city coast and countryside A montage of various fun activities available to YHA members including surfing, sailing, kayaking and hiking. Title: Meet young travellers from around the world at youth hostels Hostels for just a night weekend or longer holidays Two young people ride across a wheat field on horseback changes to a group of cyclists riding past a YHA sign and along a road. A young couple arrive at a hostel and check-in for the night. A montage of young people painting and cooking meals and a group of hostellers sitting around a fire near to YHA Port Eynon on the West Glamorgan coastline in Wales. Title: Hundreds of activities and interests – from arts to zoology – to chose from. Join YHA today!!! In Gary’s bedroom Mark lays beside Clare reading the ‘Hostelling News’ newspaper while she reads the YHA handbook. Gary and his dad sit nearby reading other YHA literature. On the computer screen the words ‘The End. Gary comes over and adds the word ‘Not’, he turns and winks at the camera. The closing credits appear on the computer screen. Credit. Gary Mark Burdis. Mark Lee MacDonald. Clare Melissa Wilson. Dad John Judd. Joanna Denise Glynn. Terry Mark Monero Canoe instructor Chris Charters. Canoeing sequence X-Persei Ltd, Staunton-on-Wye Stunts Ivan Bennett, Catherine Parker, Tracey Chapman Singers Kas Harris, Droxford School Camera Alistair Cameron, Greg Dupre Sound Trevor Hotz, Peter Rann Editor Peter Lindley Production Manager Peter Palmer Production Assistant John Ballard Production Secretary Hanya Medioli Music by Ken Howard and Zack Laurence Computer Graphics Programs Paul R. Mason Computers courtesy of DEC, Digital Equipment Corporation Title: With thanks to YHA Wardens Jen and Alan Harris, Eileen and John Cotterill, Dave Pearson, David Lloyd and Eric Mason, Chris Morris, Ian Sams, Ian Wallace from Digital Equipment Corporation Credit: YHA Production Executive Helen Cameron Written and Directed by Ken Howard Producer John Burder Title: A Sorel International Production 1984 End title: YHA