“I thought the film was absolutely brilliant, a wonderful piece of social history and it’s a pity we haven’t got more of this type of work to keep for future generations”
The mayor of the town of dover
“A rare opportunity to feast on such rich history, while artist Chris Burke said it was “an excellent piece of work. Congratulations to all those people who participated in this imaginative re-creation of the life that animated the empty buildings of the Mill.”
REV. Magaretta Bundy
(Widow of the late Dr Alan Bundy and mother of musician-son Richard Bundy, featured in the film)
“From the Museum’s point of view this was a perfect project. It made use of archives and film that we already had; it produced a wonderful film that will be kept for posterity and added these wonderful objects to the museum collection for the future”
Jon Iveson, Curator of Dover Museum
“The film was so very good. I knew it would be but it was the touching moments portrayed so very well. Lumps in my heart, tears in my eyes. Impermanence, ‘progress’ (?), the ‘family’ at work, the simple expectations of families at home. Number one and number two and the importance of a language soon to be forgotten by all but the mill dwellers. The lesson: once it’s gone it’s gone, even when it’s a ‘bad’ decision.
Loved too the way it was filmed – the two brothers in striped jumpers, the sisters, the chairs and the three ladies, the wrinkles, the coughing, the smoothing down the clothes…. All such sensitivity to the portrayal of the ‘cause’.
A masterpiece in other words!
How could one expect to be enthralled for over an hour by the subject of a paper mill? That takes some creativity!”
caroline latham