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Script cover page (Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection)
form y separately published work icon 1956 and All That single work   film/TV   crime  
Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 1956 and All That
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The script held in the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection contains the following character notes (excluding regular characters):

'RICKY: A 31 year old rocker. Tall, good-looking in a lean sparse way. A dreamer, reluctant to face reality until the very last. The driver.

'CHAS: Also a 31 year old rocker. Shorter, heavier, not so good looking. Like Ricky, missed the bus in '64 when rock collapsed, but unlike Ricky, a pragmatist. The mechanic.

'CASSIE STEVENS: About 17. Pretty, little make-up. Dresses casually. Carefree, impulsive, with no past, no future, just the present. A realist in her own reality.

'HELEN: About 21. Second-year law student. Into Womens' and any other minority Rights [sic]. Confident, at times aggressive. An idealist.

'CROFT: About 28. Well groomed, fashionably dressed. Confident, easy, yet plausible. A competent salesman.

'EMPLOYER/MANAGER:/ MR. GOODISON: About 55. Soberly dressed. No nonsense type. Knows his job, probably worked his way up from the Print Shop floor. A conservative.

'SERVICE STATION PROPRIETOR: Mid 40's. Slow, easy going type, who proves too trusting.

'SKINHEAD #1 #2. Young, weazle [sic] faced, looking for action and finding it. Drives.'

Notes

  • This entry has been compiled from archival research in the Crawford Collection (AFI Research Collection), undertaken by Dr Catriona Mills under the auspices of the 2012 AFI Research Collection (AFIRC) Research Fellowship.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1975 .
      person or book cover
      Script cover page (Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection)
      Extent: 70p.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • The script is labelled 'Episode no. 03469' on the cover page. There is no indication of to whom this copy of the script was designated.

      • The cover page also includes a list of the following crew members:

        Director: David Charles.

        First assistant director: Les Currie.

        Cameraman: Ken Ophel.

        Sound recordist: Peter Aarons.

        Continuity: Shirley Ballard.

        Make-up: Viv Mepham.

        Unit manager: Mick Mills.

        Production assistant: Helen Molnar.

        Floor manager: Laurie Levy.

      • The cover page also reflects the changing nature of production with the following note to 'all cast':

        'WARDROBE: The following are not acceptable for colour transmission so please do NOT wear: -

        'WHITE at all times on all garments.

        'RED, MAROON, BLACK VELVET, PALE BLUE, PALE LIME GREEN.

        '"BUSY" patters [sic] on all garments - STRIPES, HERRINGBONE, etc.'

      • The script is typed on thin white paper and annotated throughout with liquid paper. As with other scripts, the changes appear to be at a copy-editing level (see, for example, page 3, where 'GESTUREN' has been corrected to 'GESTURE'). In some cases, annotations in ink are discernable under the liquid paper (see, for example, page 49).

        Unlike some other scripts, there is nothing in the way of substantial changes to dialogue or stage directions: the most substantial is page 69, where an unnecessary repetition of the stage direction 'HE SUDDENLY MAKES HIS MIND UP. HE MOVES FORWARD AND BRINGS THE RIFLE ACROSS' has been covered in a white sticker and replaced with 'THE SUDDENNESS OF THE ACTION ALMOST GIVES THE EMPLOYER A HEART ATTACK'.
      • The script is also annotated minimally in red ink between pages 33 and 35, but these annotations are symbols only (underlining, asterisks, and the like).

      Holdings

      Held at: AFI Research Collection
      Local Id: SC DIV : 297
      Note:
      AFI Research Collection record
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Last amended 30 Nov 2022 12:17:26
David Charles
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