Meeting wife (Mick Corfield)
Is part of Mick Corfield Interview (incomplete)
Mick Corfield interviewed by Richard Wallace
Projectionist and BECTU representative Mick Corfield describes how he met his wife when they were both working in the same cinema.
I started in October 1989 as the new boy, and she started on November 1st 1989, so she was the new girl. I remember it well. She wore a brown button-up Cannon overall which wasn’t very fetching, and I walked down to screen number four which was a long, long corridor and I saw her at the bottom of the corridor, and she was new and she said, “Can I have your ticket, please?” And I said, “Oh I’m the projectionist.” And she went, “Oh I’m sorry.” And I said, “Oh don’t worry, I’m new here as well, and up there now making mistakes, trust me.” You know what I mean? The curtains would open and close at the wrong time, lights’d go on, the dowser would be…the film’d be running, everybody heard the sound, there’d be no picture. ‘cause I’d only been doing it for a month. And I have to say, and I don’t mind saying it, I’ll be perfectly honest with you, that I looked in her eyes and I thought that she was the woman for me. And she was.
Title
Meeting wife (Mick Corfield)
Subject
meeting wife
Description
Projectionist and BECTU representative Mick Corfield describes how he met his wife when they were both working in the same cinema.
Creator
The Projection Project
Source
Interview with Mick Corfield
Publisher
The University of Warwick
Date
08/12/2015
Contributor
Richard Wallace
Mick Corfield
Relation
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6934
Format
.mp3
Language
English
Type
Sound recording
interview extract
Coverage
1989
Interviewer
Richard Wallace
Interviewee
Mick Corfield
Date of Interview
03/08/2015
Location
Coventry
Transcription
I started in October 1989 as the new boy, and she started on November 1st 1989, so she was the new girl. I remember it well. She wore a brown button-up Cannon overall which wasn’t very fetching, and I walked down to screen number four which was a long, long corridor and I saw her at the bottom of the corridor, and she was new and she said, “Can I have your ticket, please?” And I said, “Oh I’m the projectionist.” And she went, “Oh I’m sorry.” And I said, “Oh don’t worry, I’m new here as well, and up there now making mistakes, trust me.” You know what I mean? The curtains would open and close at the wrong time, lights’d go on, the dowser would be…the film’d be running, everybody heard the sound, there’d be no picture. ‘cause I’d only been doing it for a month. And I have to say, and I don’t mind saying it, I’ll be perfectly honest with you, that I looked in her eyes and I thought that she was the woman for me. And she was.
Original Format
One-to-one interview
Duration
00:00:59
Bit Rate/Frequency
320kbps
Cinema
Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham