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for the perspective.

No, I put you in

because I want you there.

Right. I have to get

to the warden's post.

It's a writing job.

Well done, Catrin.

When there's a raid, I want you to go down

to the tube station.

I didn't bring you all the way from Wales

to see you hit by a bomb.

And you went to Dunkirk?

We meant to, but the engine stopped

five miles out.

Broken bearing.

We never got there.

But in the paper, it said

you brought home troops.

This steam tug on its way back

gave us a tow.

There were soldiers spilling over

the rails, so we pulled some on the Nancy.

Someone seen us docking

and put it in the paper.

They got the wrong end

of the stick, didn't they?

Dad said he'd be a laughingstock,

said we mustn't tell the papers.

But you ain't the papers.

You're the pictures.

Can I ask the lady something?

- Can Lily ask you something?

- Yes.

Have you ever met Robert Donat?

The famous actor?

No, no. No, I haven't, I'm afraid.

Dad!

Come quick.

Would you like to see the kitchen?

It's not him.

It's all right, Lil.

He don't like strangers, see?

He don't like a lot of things.

And you took his boat without asking?

So what do you think?

A day at the seaside.

And you never know, if there's

a film at the end of it,

there might be a better job in it for you.

We'll need someone to write the slop.

- Slop?

- Girl talk.

Women's dialogue.

"Woof, woof."

Hello. I've come to see

Rose and Lily Starling.

We're not to talk to the papers.

We're not to let no one in.

I'm not from the papers.

I'm from the Ministry of Information.

The Film Division.

Film?

I wrote it. The scenario.

I'll be in my dressing room,

if anyone needs me.

Ahem.

Everybody take ten.

Save the lights.

Banished from the set.

What in God's name possessed you?

The actor was

ruining the script.

Course he was. He's an actor.

What's this? Penance?

- Hello, Mabel. How's baby?

- He's coming along splendidly.

With more free time,

I should like to do some war work.

I simply don't know what to do.

Are you good with your hands?

I think so, yes.

Have you thought about factory work?

And the version

without the lines, please.

They want to re-use

the footage for carrots.

- Hello, Mabel. How's baby?

- He's coming along splendidly.

An appetite like his father.

He's eating us out of the house.

I simply don't know what to do.

- Are you good...

- in the garden?

I think so, yes.

- Have you thought about...

- carrots?

Right, I'll get that recorded.

- Thank you.

- How's it been, anyway?

Boys in Scenarios

made you feel welcome?

They can't see the point of me.

"If there's a dog in the script,

we don't employ a Jack Russell

to write 'woof-woof, ' do we?"

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