{"id":259,"date":"2017-11-27T21:26:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pilens.com.au\/modris\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2017-11-27T21:29:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:29:04","slug":"prince-charles-learns-to-chop-wood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pilens.com.au\/modris\/national-film-and-sound-archive\/prince-charles-learns-to-chop-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Charles learns to Chop Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is an interview Series for the National Film and Sound Archive Aural History Programme.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My name is John Fife (<strong>JF<\/strong>) and I have with me Morrie Pilens (<strong>MP<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>:\u00a0 Is the big story always the hardest story?<\/p>\n<p>MP:\u00a0 Not really, not really.\u00a0 A big story happens and you just select shots how you\u2019re going to talk about it.\u00a0 It\u2019s really hard to say what story is what.\u00a0 I think the soft story is better, see for instance, Charles.\u00a0 (puts on very posh English voice)\u00a0 \u2018Prince Charles arrived here to be educated\u2019, so they sent him to Timbertop.\u00a0 So at Timbertop we had a photo opportunity \u2013 to photograph as he stands around and poses for cameras.\u00a0 So we, in a sort of enclosure in the back yard, and there\u2019s a pile of wood and an axe down there.\u00a0 And everybody says \u2018Highness this\u2019 and \u2018Highness that\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 \u2018Look this way, look that way.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>So Morrie says \u2018Your Highness, if you pick that axe up and chop a couple of pieces of wood, it would be a very nice picture.\u2019\u00a0 And everybody looks at me and says \u2018Ah, you can\u2019t talk to him like that\u2026\u2019\u00a0 And he chops wood for me.\u00a0 On silent film, Bell and Howell, you can DO it.\u00a0 You can do it, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interview Series for the National Film and Sound Archive Aural History Programme.\u00a0 My name is John Fife (JF) and I have with me Morrie Pilens (MP). :\u00a0 Is the big story always the hardest story? MP:\u00a0 Not really, not really.\u00a0 A big story happens and you just select shots how you\u2019re going &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pilens.com.au\/modris\/national-film-and-sound-archive\/prince-charles-learns-to-chop-wood\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prince Charles learns to Chop Wood&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":167,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-259","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pilens.com.au\/modris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pilens.com.au\/modris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pilens.com.au\/modris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pilens.com.au\/modris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pilens.com.au\/modris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/pilens.com.au\/modris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"http:\/\/pilens.com.au\/modris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions\/261"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pilens.com.au\/modris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pilens.com.au\/modris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}