Scottish Film Council
The Scottish Film Council was established by 1934 was the national body for film in Scotland, and became part of Scottish Screen in April 1997.
The Council organised an annual amateur film competition and Alfred Hitchcock was an invited judge for at least one of the competitions — in 1938, Hitchcock was one of the judges who selected Herbert John Arundel's short film The Smugglers' Cave for the "Associated Cup for the Best Film Entered".[1]
The Alfred Hitchcock Cup
By 1940, the prize for the fiction class of the competition had been named the "Alfred Hitchcock Cup".
Details of the 1940 winner were included in the June 1940 issue of Documentary News Letter,
In the fiction class the Alfred Hitchcock Cup went to Joseph Bowyer's Two Hows to Wait, a tidy and amusing little film showing how different passengers spend their time at a wayside junction. Placing no great strain on the actors, because the situations were obvious and naturally comic, this was another example of a satisfying if modest success as the result of keeping within the resources of the material and apparatus available to the producer.
Other films which won the Alfred Hitchcock Cup include:
- 1949(?) — The White Lady by Enrico Cocozza[2]
- 1952 — Robot Three by Enrico Cocozza[3][4]
- 1954 — Just the Job by Philip Grosset[5]
- 1964 — Cowboys and Indians by Philip Grosset[6]
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Notes & References
- ↑ The Times (30/May/1938) - Empire Amateur Film Festival
- ↑ "Amateur Cinema: History, Theory and Genre (1930-80)" by Ryan John Shand gives the year the film was made as 1949, but not the year the film won the prize.
- ↑ Scottish Screen Archive
- ↑ The film was also awarded the "The Victor Saville Trophy" for most outstanding film.
- ↑ Bristol Film and Video Society
- ↑ Bristol Film and Video Society
