Interview of Paul Hockings by Alan Macfarlane 11th November 2005

Talks about his work with Mark McCarty on 'The Village' which became known as observational cinema. Later Ireland joined the Common Market and the economy boomed. When they filmed there it was poor and sad, full of old people who had never married. Their film turned out to be the last serious documentary on a peasant society

Two and a half minutes from over an hour and a half of film.