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Enrico Cocozza was an award winning Scottish amateur fiction film maker in the 1950s who's style was avant-garde and highly original. Often diverging from the traditional styles and subject matter of amateur film making at the time, Cocozza made films about murder, suicide, love, horror, magic, and abstract ideas. 'Chick's Day' was a prize winner at the 1951 Scottish Amateur Film Festival and is a story of a delinquent boy who's bungled robbery ends in tragedy. The film offers a harsh and gritty portrayal of poverty and crime in Lanarkshire in the 1950s through the eyes of its main character and narrator 'Chick'. Many of Cocozza's films have a dark edge including his films 'Nine O'clock' about a young man's last few hours before he commits suicide, a surreal dracula style story entitled 'Fantasmagoria' and 'Petrol' a two minute film about a roadside murder. Cocozza also made some professional films including the 1959 documentary film 'Glasgow's Docklands' which portrays the life, people and scenes of the docklands. Individual amateurs along with members of film clubs and societies have been responsible for the creation of an enormous variety of productions. The Scottish Screen Archive houses many amateur collections featuring subjects ranging from family holidays, local events, political campaigning, to both conventional and abstract fiction films. An example of a quite different amateur film maker is Frank Marshall who made many award winning fiction and non-fiction films in the 1930s to the 50s including 'The Coming of the Camerons' (1944). |
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