The Barrier
Super 8mm film Colour Sound ? 7:30
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Summary: The Barrier
Title number: 22268
LSA ID: LSA/29328
Description: Title page: Kingston Movie Makers presents The Barrier
View of countryside from train.
A close up of an old radio which fades to a headline "outcry at road-block" with a superimposed shot of a soldiers head with helmet. Another headline; a photo of CheckPoint 4 with headline "Eurotania closes borders".
Another shot of radio which fades to countryside with sign that says "Border 1km"
A military vehicles drives past and a POV from vehicle.
Shot of vehicle approaching check-point with two soldiers.
It stops and we see a sign, CheckPoint 4.
People get out of vehicle (including a nun and old man) and they are herded towards a building, Passport Control They sit down and are guarded at gun point.
An officer enters and sits down at table which has passports, a knife and an artist's paint brush.
He is talking to them and two officers, with rifles, shoot into the air.
A lot of discussion ensues.
They all stand up and leave the room at gun point.
New shot of people being held captive. A well-dressed woman adjusts her stockings and an older man looks on. His wife's rebukes him. The young woman then goes over to a man who is lying down and is injured.
Eventually, officers arrive and talk to the people. They argue with the young woman and they leave and deliberately knock over the nun.
New shot of close up of clock that says 4:30pm.
Back in the room with nun and young woman in conversation; she tends to the injured man.
She walks out the room and the clock now says 7:00pm.
New exterior shot of woman leaving the building, which is guarded by two soldiers, she hands them a piece of paper which they read. They go to the detention room and release the people who get into the back of a lorry.
Meanwhile a man staggers out of the passport office and points to the disappearing lorry.
The soldiers shoot at the lorry as it drives off. The man who had come out of the office is seen face down on the ground apparently wounded.
"In the cause of Freedom, no barrier is insurmountable"
Credits: Ann Clark (Camera operator); Geoff Clark (Editor); John Flynn; Diana McLaughlin; Larry White
Cast: John Flynn (dark stranger); Brian McLaughlin (second guard); Diana McLaughlin (young woman); Daniel McLaughlin (child); Fiona Mellon-Grant (Marcia); Vicky Osolink (a nun); Alan Smith (old man); Maureen Smith (old woman); Neil Tibbetts (young boy); Ray Tibbetts (commandant); Tom Tuohy (first guard)
Further information: Vehicle by kind permission of David Gibson.
Produced at The Chicken Studios, Claygate and on location around Surrey.
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