Watch the Birdie is a little film that I made while I was at Kinocrat. By that time I had encountered my long-time friend, Derek York, who, alas, is no longer with us, with whom I subsequently made two amateur... semi-amateur movies I'll describe later. Anyway, Derek York and I worked at Kinocrat. Once we got the idea that we would take a 50ft roll of 16mm film and make a little silent movie which would be cut in the camera. So the entire movie would be made on those 50ft of film... 50ft of 16mm is something like two minutes... two minutes of shooting. So, we got this idea that we would show somebody coming in to have their photograph taken, and they'd go to the reception and they'd say, so and so and so, I want portraits, and this, and then they'd go to the studio, and they'd be sat down and they'd be lit, and the man would have a big plate camera with a bulb that you pressed for the exposure. And... and then they would leave and two days later they would come back and collect the photos at reception. So all that story we told, and we ran out of film just... we got it judged pretty well, but we ran out of film just before we finished the scene of her collecting the photos at the end. But all the... all the main part of being sat down and lit, because one of the three guys working there was a... or one of the two guys working there was a quite a good stills photographer, quite a good portrait photographer. And that was their main business, doing that. Film-making was kind of an adjunct. Anyway that was very interesting, and this film still exists, this little box of 50ft of 16mm, which we called Watch the Birdie.