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Summary

A musical with a thoughtful comment on the demands that face a rural community faced with plans for an open cast mine in their area. Performed by pupils from Hatton School in Derbyshire.

Year:

1983

Duration:

0:26:00

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Genre:

Musical

Company:

Central Television

Master format:

16mm

Description

The pupils of Hatton School play all the roles.

We open with a song about the generation gap as children rail against their parents not understanding them. We are introduced to Julie who does not fit in with the other teenagers because of her lack of interest in fashion and her hopes to become a mining engineer. She dreams of a relationship with sensitive boy Rob. This dream comes true in a scene filmed in the grounds of Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire.

The teengers find out about plans for a new coal mine in their area and organise a protest campaign which Julie is against because of her future career plans. Rob is drawn into the protest and is persuaded to fire bomb the mine surveyor's cabin - a misguided plan which Julie tries to prevent.


Credits

Written by Margaret Gildea

Julie Waring - Paula Wright
Rob Mount - Peter Byworth
Mike - Warwick Harwood
Ben - James Bentley
Sue - Natasha Byworth
Lorraine - Diane Hassell
Carol - Finola Bryan

Susan Bunn, Sean Barratt, Louise Warren, Mark Whyman, Joanna Tatton, Simon Moorman, Sandra Goodall, Peter Goodings, Sharon Elson, Neil Pratt, Anne Lynch, Tim Bagshaw, Gilly Arthur, Douglas Attewell, Jane Frederick, Richard Bell, Sara Bassington, Tim Smith, Julie Roberts, John Potts, Joanne Casson, Adrian Mobb, Susan Hidderley, Clive Johnson, Gary Butcher, Martin Aiton, Andrew Dudley, Graham Carlow.

Special thanks to: Sarah Fern, Tony Parnham and the staff and pupils of Hatton School, Derbyshire

Music by Alan Hutchinson and David Radford
Stage Production - Edward Gildea
Camera - John Varnish
Sound - Frank Minton, Phil Dawson, Colin Martin
Graphics - David Beeson
Production Assistant - Annette Cunningham
Film Editor - Perry Schaffer
Executive Producer - Brian Lewis
Director - John Thornicroft


Notes

PN 9716/82.