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[…] company. It's very much done on who you know. Somebody will will recommend you to somebody, and they'll then get in touch that part of the film industry still exists where a lot of it is word of mouth, and they'll give you a brief or they'll send you the whole breakdown for the crowd, for the film,[…]
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[…] to take a big decision, and I basically decided I read the King weekly at the Abbey gate and all these adverts for projectionists all around the country and everything. And I decided, right, this is it. I'm leaving home, and I literally packed a few things into a case, bagged a lift from the local […]
[…]sp;1:05 What about honours?Unknown Speaker 1:07 No. Excellent.Speaker 2 1:09 Well, um, what started you off in the industry? What was your interest? How did you become interested?Speaker 1 1:18 Well, it's quite accidental, really, because I left school at 15[…]