Collector

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[00:13.66] THE Collector

[00:15.42] By Peter Viney.

[00:20.16] One August first

[00:33.67] Yes, this is a supermarket.

[00:37.17] It's big. There aren't any supermarkets at home.

[00:42.42] We don't need them now

[00:45.67] Everything is very cheap here.

[00:48.91] Well, it's all new.

[00:52.42] Look at this! Kellogg's Cornflakes, £1.79!

[01:00.06] I can sell this packet at home for 5,000 units, maybe 6,000.

[01:08.31] But I don't want this one.

[01:11.23] It's got a picture from Star Trek on it.

[01:15.73] I'm looking for a Kellogg's Cornflakes packet,

[01:19.48] but I need the 500 gram packet with a picture of a dinosaur on the back.

[01:26.74] Those packets are from July and August 1993.

[01:33.73] It's August 1st, 1993 today.

[01:39.48] The twentieth-century film Jurassic Park is in the cinemas this week.

[01:45.73] It's a new film, and the pictures of dinosaurs are on everything.

[01:52.67] They're on packets of cornflakes, magazines, comics.

[01:59.30] All these packets here have got the Star Trek picture.

[02:05.27] Maybe I can ask.

[02:08.67] There's a young woman near the packets of coffee.

[02:12.44] She's taking more packets of coffee from a box.

[02:17.66] She's wearing a green coat.

[02:21.41] She works in this supermarket.

[02:24.17] I can ask her.

[02:28.29] Excuse me , madam .

[02:30.54] Sorry ?

[02:32.04] Excuse me , madam

[02:34.04] I'm looking for the cornflakes .

[02:36.79] They're over there .

[02:38.51] You're standing next to them .

[02:41.12] You don't understand .

[02:43.46] I want a packet with a dinosaur picture .

[02:47.47] A 500 gram packet .

[02:50.34] Oh ! For your children .

[02:53.33] They all love Jurassic Park.

[02:56.58] Yes.That's right .

[02:59.09] For my children .

[03:01.08] They love the film.

[03:02.84] We haven't got any .

[03:05.09] We're going to get some tomorrow .

[03:07.73] Come back then .

[03:09.59] Tomorrow? What time?

[03:13.39] The food arrives at six o'clock or seven o'clock in the morning .

[03:18.47] We open at eight .

[03:20.59] Thank you , madam .

[03:22.59] Are you English ?

[03:25.34] Er .. . no . I' m .. . I' m .. . a visitor . Why ?

[03:33.81] You say strange things. 'Madam' .

[03:38.32] No one says 'madam' in a supermarket.

[03:44.83] This is terrible .

[03:47.32] Can I wait for tomorrow ?

[03:50.59] I don't like it here .

[03:53.09] It's cold and dirty .

[03:56.08] And my arm is hurting .

[03:59.47] But I need that packet .

[04:02.71] I can get 300,000 units for that packet at home.

[04:08.33] The dinosaur picture on that packet is by Kate Hermann.

[04:13.86] She's a very famous artist at home.

[04:16.65] Many people collect food packets with her pictures on them,

[04:21.48] but they haven't got the dinosaur picture.

[04:25.70] No one has got that picture.

[04:29.35] Kate Hermann's picture is famous,

[04:32.35] because the colours of the dinosaurs are correct.

[04:37.10] Dinosaur pictures usually have all the colours wrong.

[04:42.48] We know that now.

[04:53.14] 2

[04:54.38] What is she doing here?

[04:58.02] I know her.

[05:00.64] Tilda Birdsong.

[05:03.39] What is she doing here?

[05:06.39] I don't like her.

[05:09.40] Does she want a cornflakes packet,too?

[05:14.76] Clinton! Hi. How are you?

[05:19.14] I'm fine, thanks. How are you, Tilda?

[05:23.39] You're looking for something, Clinton.

[05:26.14] What is it

[05:26.89] this time?

[05:28.89] Nothing.

[05:29.64] You can tell me! We're friends.

[05:33.34] Friends? Are we?

[05:36.14] Well, our jobs are the same. We buy and sell things

[05:42.89] Why are you here?

[05:44.89] Why not? It's a twentieth-century supermarket.

[05:50.27] It's an interesting place.

[05:53.14] But why today? Why on August 1st, 1993?

[05:59.89] Maybe I'm hungry. Or thirsty

[06:04.89] What do you want?

[06:06.95] I've got it. It's here.

[06:14.01] There's a packet of tea in her hand.

[06:17.52] What make is it?

[06:19.77] Ah, yes

[06:22.52] Twinings tea

[06:24.52] 99 pence

[06:27.51] Expensive, yes.

[06:31.02] It's a beautiful packet

[06:33.52] It's green, grey and gold.

[06:39.27] Maybe she can get 10,000 units for that packet

[06:44.51] But no more.

[06:46.76] Many people have got 1990s Twinings tea packets.

[06:52.75] But why is she here on the same day

[06:56.76] and in the same place?