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‘Scottish Documentary Institute Presents’

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‘A Bridging the Gap Production in Association with Scottish Screen’

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CHILD: ROSY WATTS

When it’s me, time for me to go to bed, it’s time for them to wake up.

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CHILD: LUCY IRELAND

She comes in the middle of the night, when everybody’s asleep.

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CHILD: LAURIE SUMMERS

How, how does she get in?

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CHILD: MIA SCOTT

Maybe they just fly in through the key hole hole if they manage to find it. Or maybe… I don’t know…Or they might find a little secret passage or something and go down there.

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‘The Truth About Tooth’

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CHILD: MIA SCOTT

He, em they’re so tiny they can um crawl under your pillowwow and then pick up the tooth and just carry it away I think.

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CHILD: ISEABAL CAMERON

I think a few of them would come to have team work and get the tooth back.

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CHILD: MIA SCOTT

It feels a wee bite sore.

When I lost me top one it was very scary when I lost my top one.

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CHILD: MIA SCOTT

Luckily I’ve never swallowed it before.

INTERVIEWER: HAZEL BAILLIE

Have you not?

CHILD: MIA SCOTT

No, I’ve always given it to the tooth fairy.

She always gives me a pound and some fairy dust.

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FAIRY WORKER: LINDA THOM

My job involves making the powder, filtering it and basically from start to finish of a final product on the tooth powder.

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CHILD: MIA SCOTT

Maybe she puts um, the tooth in her tooth bag.

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FAIRY WORKER: AGNES COUGHLIN

Just an ordinary towel. Put all your teeth in there.

And you do that to dry them.

You fold you teeth up, you put your teeth into the middle. Hold both ends so the teeth don’t come flying out. Dry, and put into a tub.

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CHILD: MIA SCOTT

Well they must just pull levers and stuff. And um, put magic on it. And it sort of works I think.

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CHILD: JUDE SAYWELL

She has a crown and she has curly hair, and she has a dress and a basket and feet and magic wings, and a basket, with teeth.

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FAIRY WORKER: AGNES COUGHLIN

We've got them ones for the big teeth with the big holes. See the big holes. and them ones for the small teeth wi the smaller holes. So we can't use that for the smaller teeth because the teeth'll fall through.

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CHILD: MIA SCOTT

They’re tiny I think. Teensy weensy.

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FAIRY WORKER: PAULINE LINDSAY

So these teeth I’m on today are quite big teeth. You get smaller teeth what are like little grains o’rice. They’re really hard to pick up and fiddly.

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CHILD: JUDE SAYWELL

You don’t know where she lives. Never know. I don’t know either. No-one knows.

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CHILD: MIA SCOTT

Hmm. I think probably at this big house really, um where they make the teeth I into pearls. And it’s very big I expect cause of all the tooth, em, all the machinery.

And there’s lots of tooth fairies cause there’s lots of children um losing teeth.

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FAIRY WORKER: LINDA THOM

It’s like a set routine you know what you’re coming in to do each day. It’s the same pattern it’s quite repetitive.

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FAIRY WORKER: AGNES COUGHLIN

You get a twenty minutes tea break in the morning, twenty minutes tea break in the afternoon you get half an hour for your dinner.

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FAIRY WORKER: PAULINE LINDSAY Sometimes you get a sore head with the light cause you’re working constantly underneath a light, so you end up getting sore eyes. If you don’t wear glasses all the time you’ll end up wearing glasses.

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FAIRY WORKER: AGNES COUGHLIN

And there’s people ben (over) there that sit, that’s their job they sit there all day and sort and then bring them ben (over) to us and we shake and put them into barrels. But then when we’ve got spare time we’ve got to sit and sort as well cause the more teeth that we get, the more teeth goes in, the more teeth goes out the door the more money the firm get. You know.

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CHILD: MIA SCOTT

Sometimes they give the children five p and most of the times they give the children a pound. I got pounds all the time.

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PARENT: ALISON HYDE

And I thought twenty pence was a nice sum and she came back from school really really upset. What’s wrong with my tooth? I only got twenty p and somebody else had got a pound.

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CHILD: MIA SCOTT

Well she leaves it, Well I get them all wrapped in a little sort of piece of tissue paper. It’s definitely some of our tissue paper I think.

And well, on the inside of the paper she sort of writes a letter there.

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PARENT: ANDY TOOMBS

It’s kind of tricky as an adult then trying to make up plausible answers, in someone else’s handwriting. But we got away with it so far.

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PARENT: HELEN IRELAND

And she has asked me once directly whether I am the tooth fairy and I just said to her well what do you think. And she’s too nervous to push it I think. She’s just at that age where she doesn’t want to not believe it but she also can’t quite believe it.

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PARENT: LISA SUMMERS

I know that you end up putting more and more and more lies into this little mind that’s just soaking it all up but you when you think of yourself now as an adult then it’s just like a really really magical time and we spend half our lives wishing we were back there as kids.

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PARENT: ANDY TOOMBS

It’s nice to have the sort of escapism, you know, it takes your mind off things, it’s nice to remember that there are normal things there instead of all the pressures that we get involved with sometimes.

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PARENT: LISA SUMMERS

Eh, you tell lies all the time with children just to try to make the day go by and I think this is actually just a really beautiful lie, a little white lie and a lovely little lie that we should encourage everybody to keep going for as long as possible.

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CHILD: ASHLEY PRETSELL

I used to believe in the tooth fairy but now I don’t. But I still tell my mummy and daddy that I do, so that I get the money and, I think they kinda like it.

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