Mum and Dad
CAMERAS DIALOGUE SOUND
32. 4 EAMONN: STILL. SUBJECT
AS YOU`LL AGREE, DAVID, TO A BOY OF ELEVEN ALL DAYSIN BED ARE LONG BUT THOSE SPENT IN HOSPITAL ARE THE LONGEST OF THE LOT. EIGHT MONTHS AT LUTON AND DUNSTABLE SEVEN MONTHS OF SKIN-GRAFTING AT MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL,
2/sh/ EAMONN
YOU COULD HAVE MADE YOURSELF PRETTY MISERABLE
SUBJECT THINKING ABOUT YOUR HOME IN HEMEL HEMPSTEAD.
34. 4 STILL: HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
STILL: HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
BP: SUBJECT IN CHAIR EAMONN continued
THE RIVER WHERE YOU PADDLED YOUR HOME-MADE RAFT AND THE WOOD NEARBY WHERE THERE WERE SO MANY TREES TO CLIMB.
35. 3 INSTEAD YOU WERE THINKING ABOUT AN ADVENTURE TO COME.
MCU SUBJECT
36. 4 STILL: ROEHAMPTON EAMONN: continued
HERE AT ROEHAMPTON YOUR NEW LEGS ARE MADE AND FITTED.
37. 3 BUT WHATEVER SKILL GOES INTO THEIR MAKING, SUCCESS OR FAILURE DEPENDS MAINLY ON YOU.
38. 4 STILL: SUBJECT BETWEEN PARALLEL BARS
EAMONN:
IT`S A PAINFUL, DISHEARTENING PROCESS AT FIRST, AND TO A LIVELY YOUNGSTER MADDENINGLY SLOW. BUT YOU SET YOURSELF A DEADLINE, MAY 26TH, 1958. YOU`RE HATCHING A LITTLE PLOT BUT YOU NEED AN ACCOMPLICE AND ONE OF YOUR VISITORS IS JUST THE MAN. HE`S HERE TO JOIN YOU AGAIN TONIGHT, YOUR FELLOW CONSPIRATOR, YOUR FATHER, MR HARRY BUTLER. WITH, OF COURSE, YOUR MOTHER, MRS. BUTLER.
40. 2 ENTRANCE TAPE 5
ENTRANCE MR. BUTLER
41. 1 3/sh as MRS. BUTLER SITS GREETING
EAMONN:
WHAT WAS THE SCHEME MR. BUTLER?
MR. BUTLER:
42. 2 WELL, DAVID TOLD ME THAT HE THOUGHT HE`D BE ABLE TO COME OUT VERY SOON BUT I WAS TO KEEP IT TO MYSELF. I WASN`T TO TELL ANYBODY, NOT EVEN HIS MOTHER AND HE SAID HE WOULDN`T EVEN BE WRITING ANY MORE LETTERS HOME.
EAMONN:
43. 3 (TO DAVID) WHICH IS WHY ON MAY 26TH FOUR YEARS AGO YOUR MOTHER CAME HOME FROM HER SHOPPING FEELING PRETTY DEPRESSED. IT WAS HER BIRTHDAY AND THERE HADN`T BEEN SO MUCH AS A CARD. BUT AS YOU FUMBLED FOR YOUR KEY THE FRONT DOOR OPENED, DIDN`T IT?
MRS. BUTLER:
44. 4 YES AND HERE WAS THE FINEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT I`VE EVER HAD!
49. 2 IT WAS DAVID HIMSELF - AND HE WAS WALKING. I JUST COULDN`T BELIEVE MY EYES WHEN I SAW HIM STANDING THERE IN THE DOORWAY AS LARGE AS LIFE AND GRINNING ALL OVER HIS FACE!
EAMONN:
50. 1 I BELIEVE YOU MAKE QUITE A FUSS ABOUT BIRTHDAYS IN THE BUTLER HOME?
MR. BUTLER:
51. 4 YES AND HIS MOTHER WAS VERY FED UP WHEN IT LOOKED AS THOUGHT HE`S FORGOTTEN TO SEND HER EVEN A BIRTHDAY CARD.
EAMONN:
52. 3 (TO MRS. BUTLER) PARTICULARLY AS HE WAS VERY GOOD AT KEEPING YOU POSTED?
MRS. BUTLER:
53. 2 YES. ALL THE TIME HE WAS IN HOSPITAL HE SENT US WONDERFULLY CHEERFUL LETTERS ABOUT THE WAY HE WAS LEARNING TO DO THINGS AGAIN. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THERE WAS NOTHING TO BEAT HAVING HIM BACK AT HOME.
EAMONN:
54. 1 THANK YOU, MR. AND MRS. BUTLER.
EXIT MR. AND MRS. BUTLER TAPE 7
