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	<title>David Watkin &#187; Southern Railway Film</title>
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		<title>Southern Railway, from 1948 to 1952</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;my uncle Laurie found that there was a small unit of four people making documentary and training films in the nether regions of Waterloo Station, well beneath the notice of a trade union. My father set up his Blickensderfer (the oldest typewriter in the world) on our dining-room table and dashed off a letter to the company chairman. &#8220;I can get you in there&#8221; he said, &#8220;you might as well learn something while you are waiting&#8221;. I think it was the first time I saw him put himself out for me, and was really touched by it. So began a very happy first year; there was Basil, a busy but sensible boss, a gay script-writer, and best of all, old Tom Heritage. He was well named. The only real railwayman among us, he had started on the Brighton line as a boy in the uniform grade, i.e. the lower orders. He finally landed up as our projectionist and used to travel all over the system showing training films to staff in a railway carriage that had been converted into a cinema. This was known as the cinema coach and in it Tom took a jealous proprietorial interest.&#8221; (Clara) Photography was [...]]]></description>
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