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Christine WhittakerHistory Project 1As a rare insight into the wonderfully diverse career Christine Whittaker carved out for herself in the world of archive – and beyond – we re-visit an interview she gave to the History Project eight years ago in Puglia, Italy. Her ‘inquisitors’ were Sue Malden and[…]

[…]o.Like the director’s slogging away every night doing the shot list for the next day, you know.Yes, yes. Mm, ah now we come to the piece de, piece de BAFTA, ‘Testament of Youth’.Exactly. [Laughter]How did ‘Testament of Youth’ come about?I had a phone call from, mm, should I introduce that for you ?Y[…]

[…]e had about three scripts when Moira, Morra Armstrong who did it so beautifully too. That was studio, studio and a bit of film. [Laughter] And it won BAFTA didn’t it?Yes.And it beat Tinker, Tailor that everybody else thought would win. So there you go, life’s full of surprises. [Laughter]Now some po[…]

[…]whether it was Paramount or something like that. And they used to make silent films round there, and occasionally they would enlist some local people for crowd scenes, everybody would be in it from round about you see, and there would be comings and goings of these people going into this studio.Well[…]

[…]eeded that picture very badly but I wasn't going to go down that road, and I didn't speak to that man for many years, and finally he came up to me at BAFTA and said isn't it time we shook hands, I said if you must you must, but I didn't like that because it was a bazaar then, it wasn't filmmaking. I[…]

[…] he used to go back and forth to New York for one day we were in Paris and it was […]

[…]8/3/2001Side 100:00:00 – 00:17:35 Born 1924, in Melbourne; when she was 11 her family moved to Sydney; at 14 she went to art school where she studied for 6 years; she came from a nice middleclass family which had no connection to her later career; after the first two years at college she was require[…]