Family connections to cinema (Mick Corfield)
Is part of Mick Corfield Interview (incomplete)
Mick Corfield interviewed by Richard Wallace
Projectionist and BECTU representative Mick Corfield describes his appointment as a cinema projectionists and finding out that his father used to be a projectionist as well.
I’d wasted my childhood at school and couldn’t be bothered and then ended up working in a factory, and decided that there were two great loves in my life. One was cinema and one was football. So therefore I got a job as a steward at West Bromwich Albion and a job in a cinema. Now, it was really strange, because my Mum had no inclination that I was interested in the cinema at all, and then when I’d got the job at the local cinema as a projectionist I went and told Mum ‘cause I was quite thrilled and Mum burst into tears and I said, “What’s the matter, Mum, it’s a steady job, it’s a...,” you know, “It’s a job, it’s something I was looking forward to doing.” And Mum said, “Well you didn’t know, but your father was a projectionist and that’s how I met him ‘cause I was an usherette.” And I hadn’t had any idea of, of this, you see. So there’s often when you talk to people, people’ll say, “Oh it’s in my blood.” Well clearly it was in my blood but obviously I wasn’t aware of it. So that’s how I got into cinema, just ‘cause I wanted something different, something for a change.
Title
Family connections to cinema (Mick Corfield)
Subject
career progression
family
Description
Projectionist and BECTU representative Mick Corfield describes his appointment as a cinema projectionists and finding out that his father used to be a projectionist as well.
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’d wasted my childhood at school and couldn’t be bothered and then ended up working in a factory, and decided that there were two great loves in my life. One was cinema and one was football. So therefore I got a job as a steward at West Bromwich Albion and a job in a cinema. Now, it was really strange, because my Mum had no inclination that I was interested in the cinema at all, and then when I’d got the job at the local cinema as a projectionist I went and told Mum ‘cause I was quite thrilled and Mum burst into tears and I said, “What’s the matter, Mum, it’s a steady job, it’s a...,” you know, “It’s a job, it’s something I was looking forward to doing.” And Mum said, “Well you didn’t know, but your father was a projectionist and that’s how I met him ‘cause I was an usherette.” And I hadn’t had any idea of, of this, you see. So there’s often when you talk to people, people’ll say, “Oh it’s in my blood.” Well clearly it was in my blood but obviously I wasn’t aware of it. So that’s how I got into cinema, just ‘cause I wanted something different, something for a change.
Original Format
One-to-one interview
Duration
00:01:01
Bit Rate/Frequency
320kbps
Cinema
Reel Cinema, 12 Hagley Road West, Birmingham