The film was made by a group of unemployed young people who were given a place on Telycop, a Government Manpower Commission project designed to help them find work. ‘Is this a real job or is it a con?’, the film makers ask. They act out situations and experiences to show what they thought and felt about the real motives behind schemes like Telycop. The Army Recruitment Office is ‘one of the few places where there was any chance of a real job’.
There was also a ‘real life’ interview with the Supervisor: ‘By and large’, he argued, ‘young people are paid a lot of money for perhaps what they can really do. £23.50 seems to me to be a reasonable compromise between the levels you get when you’re unemployed and the levels you get in a proper job’.
TCA Worker on this project was Gray Woodruff
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