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This article is about the 1962 16mm short film by Ridley Scott. For the 1973 Hovis ad also directed by Scott sometimes called Boy on the Bike, see The Bike Ride.
Film
Boy and Bicycle
Directed by
Ridley Scott
Written by
Ridley Scott
Produced by
Ridley Scott
Starring
Tony Scott
Cinematography
Ridley Scott
Running time
27 minutes
Language
English
Boy and Bicycle is the first film made by Ridley Scott. The black and white short was made on 16mm film while Scott was a photography student at the Royal College of Art in London in 1962.
Although a very early work - Scott would not direct his first feature for another 15 years - the film is significant in that it features a number of visual elements that would become motifs of Scott's work. Shot entirely in West Hartlepool and Seaton Carew the film features the cooling tower and blast furnaces of the local British Steel North Works foreshadowing images in Alien, Blade Runner and Black Rain. The central element of the Boy and Bicycle is re-used in Scott's advert for Hovis of the early 1970s. The film features Scott's younger brother, Tony Scott, as the boy.[1] "We were both experiencing the process that would fundamentally take us through our live together, in terms of making movies", Ridley Scott commented about the film and his brother.
Scott secured finance from the British Film Institute to complete the editing and sound in 1965[2] including a track by John Barry called "Onward Christian Spacemen" (which originally appeared as the B-side of a cover version of the theme to The Human Jungle television series). Scott wanted to use the existing recording by Barry, but the composer was so impressed by the young filmmaker he agreed to produce a new recording for the film[3] at limited cost.
This film has been released as an extra on the Paramount DVD of Scott's first feature The Duellists and The Criterion Collection Blu-Ray and 4K UHD of Scott's Thelma & Louise.
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