How can I use a script to search for a list of filenames and copy them to another directory

Hi all,
I'm quite new to using scripts etc and wondered if anyone could help? I've only ever modified preset folder scripts so making one from scratch is a bit new to me, but it would also be great if anyone else has done this before if they could pass on there script and ill modify to suit my needs.
I will be recieving a tab delimited file containing a list of 150 - 200 clips every day and I need to pull those files onto a hard drive.
All of the files are housed in one folder on the internal media drive and I would like to be able to have applescript / automator / whatever either look through the tab file and then move the files in the tab file from the internal media drive to the external transport drive or I copy and paste the filenames into the script and run it and the script moves the files from the internal media drive to the external transport drive.
Hope someone can help,
Many Thanks

There are no other files in the source video root folder nor are there any folders within the subfolders.
I have tested the script and the response I am getting is this....
Could this be something to do with the {} on the set filestoMove command?
In the replies box I get the following....
tell current application
read alias "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:Untitled.txt"
--> "000004_1__4michaeljmcevoy_4iLlBuDjjG0"
end tell
tell application "System Events"
count folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> 10
count item 1 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> 1
get name of item 1 of item 1 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> ".DS_Store"
count item 2 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> 1
get name of item 1 of item 2 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> "000004"
count item 3 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> 1
get name of item 1 of item 3 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> "000005"
count item 4 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> 1
get name of item 1 of item 4 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> "000006"
count item 5 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> 1
get name of item 1 of item 5 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> "000007"
count item 6 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> 1
get name of item 1 of item 6 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> "000008"
count item 7 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> 1
get name of item 1 of item 7 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> "000009"
count item 8 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> 1
get name of item 1 of item 8 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> "000010"
count item 9 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> 1
get name of item 1 of item 9 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> "000011"
count item 10 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> 1
get name of item 1 of item 10 of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Ben:Desktop:source"
--> "000012"
end tell
tell application "Finder"
-- 'core'\'clon'{ 'insh':'alis'($000000000152000200010C4D6163696E746F7368204844000000000000000000 000000000000CA40F7FC482B00000006AB3D06736F75726365000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000007FD33CAFABF2E0000000000000000FFFFFFFF000009200000000000000000000000000000 00074465736B746F7000001000080000CA40E9EC0000001100080000CAFABF2E00000001000C0006 AB3D0006AA9B0000BEEC000200284D6163696E746F73682048443A55736572733A0042656E3A0044 657…
--> {}
end tell
Result:

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