Description: Pinner Cine Society presents 'Time Lapse' by Godfrey Jennison. The opening scene sees a young man in a sitting room who appears to be falling asleep reading a paper. He wakes and looks at the grandfather clock, tapping the front to check the time (which is quarter to two). He then looks up in the Yellow Pages the 'Acne clock company' and calls, but he is kept waiting, no one is there to answer his call. The young man keeps holding on, he looks frustrated and leaves a message. Back at the shopfront an employee of Acne clock company comes in and checks the answerphone, writing notes from the young man's message which he folds up and puts in his pocket, packing a briefcase as he does so. At the house, the young man makes a quick call before picking up his briefcase case and leaving.

Meanwhile, the employee at Acne clock company leaves the building. The two men collide on the street and both of their cases drop. They pick up each others briefcases and continue walking in opposite directions. We then see the Acne clock company owner walking on the street, checking notes he has made previously, heading to the young man's house. At the same time, the young man heads towards the clock shop. The clock shop owner continues to walk to the young man's house whilst the young man tries to enter the clock shop but the door is shut. They both wait outside each others doors. The young man then checks his watch as he waits and realises that his watch is missing. The exact same happens to the clock shop owner: he checks his watch only to see that it is not there. The young man stops a woman in the street outside the clock shop and asks her to check the time on her watch. The woman puts the clock to her ear to listen for a tick but realises that it has stopped. Then the clock shop owner carries out the exact same sequence once more, showing the man that he asks for the time a note. These two men walk down the street together.

Back at the clock shop there are a number of people outside checking their watches, realising that they are not working as they should. Wee see the interior of the clock shop: all of the clocks show that the time is quarter to two, the same time that the young man's clock initially stopped at. The young man then begins to speak to the crowd outside of the shop but a number of people ignore him. He is visibly frustrated. He picks up his briefcase and walks away from the clock shop. Even more people are now gathered outside the clock shop - their watches are not working. A police officer arrives on the scene, checks his watch and realises, like the others, that his watch also shows quarter to two. We then see the young man and the clock shop owner turning a corner, they bump into each other again picking up each others briefcase but in this act, by chance, they are reunited with their own cases again.

Meanwhile the crowd has turned into a queue outside the shop, the clock shop owner arrives to open up and everyone pours in. The young man goes back to his house but the grandfather clock still reads as quarter to two. Elsewhere, the clock shop owner is at the till, inspecting people's watches. Back at the young man's home he picks up the phone, is about to make a call, looks up as if he hears something, looks at the clock which shows, to his surprise, four o'clock. End credits play.