On Friday, 8 September 1995 08:00:00 UTC+1, Gareth Randall  wrote:   
   > I have a very specific memory of an entry to the Screen Test "Young   
   > Filmmaker of the Year" competition which scared the crap out of me at   
   > the time (I was about 7-8 years old) and has stayed with me, and I'd   
   > be interested to know if anyone else remembers it :   
   >    
   > It was basically an expanded and more menacing attempt at a public   
   > information film. From the POV of the driver, we see a car pulling up   
   > to the side of a road next to a child crying. The driver asks why the   
   > child is upset, and the kid says that the ice-cream van is coming, but   
   > his/her mummy is around the corner and he/she is worried that the van   
   > will have gone before mummy gets back. The driver (who is always   
   > unseen) says that he'll drive them round to find mummy...   
   >    
   > The next scene I remember is the one that genuinely frightened me at   
   > the time, and it still has the power to send a shiver down my spine.   
   > We see a clearing in some woodland with two makeshift graves; two   
   > children eating ice-creams dissolve in to stand on the grave sites,   
   > then disappear again. A caption comes up, reading something like "And   
   > all for the sake of an ice-cream"; as the word "cream" appears, we   
   > hear a scream.   
   >    
   > A friend of mine remembers this one too, and says it had/has just the   
   > same effect on him! Anyone else remember it in more detail?   
   >    
   > Gareth   
      
      
   Hi Gareth, no idea if you're still on here, but this came up when I   
   Google-searched for the Screen Test Ice Scream film.  I too remember it very   
   well - around the same age as you - and it has remained with me for years.    
   The parts you mention but also    
   the piece between those two scenes where they do drive to the ice-cream van,   
   the care starts to slow, then speeds up really quickly leaving the van and   
   children behind.  An impressive film for a young filmmaker.  Did you ever find   
   anything else out?  Was    
   it a teenage Tim Burton!  Dan   
      
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