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The Office Picnic (1972)

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clip 'Beer for the workers'

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As the office picnic progresses into the night, the partygoers get drunker, exposing simmering tensions. Clyde, a frustrated musician, tangles with a drunken colleague (Byron Kennedy), then punches the youngest member of staff, Peter (Philip Deamer), who leaves with his girlfriend Elly (Gay Steele). They are not seen again.

Curator’s notes

by Paul Byrnes

Most of this is one continuous shot, which helps to establish the free-flowing sense of the party being in full swing, on the verge of getting out of control. The film was largely improvised from a seven-page synopsis. Tom Cowan was an experienced cameraman but he did not shoot this film. The director of photography was Mike Edols.

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