Creating period costumes, from Harry Potter to Sweeney Todd: Jackie, Londoner #99
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Jackie is a highly skilled
Jackie is a highly skilled historical costume maker based at Sands Films, Rotherhithe. Described as a ‘hidden treasure’, Sands Films is a period costume facility, based in a Grade 2 listed granary building located metres away from the Thames. The company has created costumes for countless film, TV, stage and opera productions, including Sweeney Todd, Les Miserables and Harry Potter. One of three generations to work at Sands Films, Jackie followed in her mother’s footsteps 20 years ago, helping with the ironing and washing of costumes. Since then she has worked on every part of the costume process, from sewing and embroidering, to dying fabrics, washing and ironing. Her daughter works alongside her, and her granddaughter of just 8 has recently been bought a sewing machine.
1000 LONDONERS
This film is part of 1000 Londoners, a five-year digital project which aims to create a digital portrait of a city through 1000 of the people who identify themselves with it. The profile contains a 3 minute film that gives an insight into the life of the Londoner, as well as their personal photos of London and some answers to crucial questions about their views on London life. Over the course of the project we aim to reveal as many facets of the capital as possible, seeing city life from 1000 points of view.
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1000 Londoners is produced by South London based film production company and social enterprise, Chocolate Films. The filmmakers from Chocolate Films will be both
producing the films and providing opportunities to young people and community groups to make their own short documentaries, which will contribute to the 1000 films. Visit chocolatefilms.com
Transcript:
This dress that I'm getting ready at the moment is for a hot drinks commercial, looking at costumes through the years and how costumes have changed. When I first came here it was all derelict, there was no Surrey Quays, there was no houses, it was just all corrugated iron everywhere, just the Thames and the old docks. And then they regenerated the area, built the houses up, so there's been a tremendous change. I like things to stay as they are. But this little part where we actually work has not been changed that much. I like that. Sands Films is a costume warehouse, we make costumes for films, theatres. We're actually located about a hundred yards from the river. We are a little hidden treasure. All the costumes here are made as accurate as we can from the original. It goes right to the underwear with that authentic. They wouldn't have a pair of modern underwear on underneath, you know, they would have crotchless bloomers on and you know, it would be as authentic as we could make it. We have original costumes which we take apart, to see how they're assembled, no machining unless it's past the period in time, you know. We don't use zips or velcro, that's a taboo word! She wouldn't be very wealthy person who wore this dress, she'd probably be some poor cow that works in a factory. Sorry! As a youngster I used to get very excited, but now if you see your work on the screen you think - got to make sure my hems OK, the sleeves are in right, you know, and also that the actual dresser has put them into the costume correctly in the first place, because the girls have to be really squeezed into that corset. When I was a little girl I did not have any ambition whatsoever. My mum used to work here and I used to come and visit her, and I fell in love with the place and it's just sort of snowballed from there. Now we're on the third generation - my daughter works here. So we're just trying to train up the granddaughter now. We've worked with hundreds, I mean we've been on all the big films from Sweeney Todd, Cinderella, I mean they go on and on, Harry Potter! But my claim to fame I must say is getting told off by Christopher Lee for having my shoelaces undone running around the building. The atmosphere in this place is, - you couldn't get it anywhere else. It's just an amazing building. We're quite unique here.
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