Day 188 - 15 Nov 95 - Page 52


     
     1        A.  I think, you know, one would need to look at the film
     2        and go through it.  I am not quite sure what you mean by
     3        that question, actually.
     4
     5   Q.   Then, I quite agree.  I am not going to ask you to look at
     6        it.  Ignore the question.
     7        A.  Yes.
     8
     9   Q.   Were you disappointed with the final product when it was
    10        made?
    11        A.  I thought there were a couple of incidents that we had
    12        on film that would have been better to have put in the
    13        film, but I thought it was a fairly accurate representation
    14        of the filming that we did.
    15
    16   Q.   You will be pleased to hear that, by and large, McDonald's
    17        agree with you -- and did at the time, as I understand what
    18        you have just told us.
    19        A.  As far as I know, yes.
    20
    21   Q.   My question was meant rather differently.  Were you not
    22        rather frustrated that it was not a hatchet job?
    23        A.  No.  I would not say I was frustrated at that at all.
    24
    25   MR. RAMPTON:   Thank you.
    26
    27                      Re-examined by the Defendants
    28
    29   MR. MORRIS:  Just a couple of questions.  Would a professional
    30        researcher such as yourself invent lies in order to justify
    31        their own personal opinions when working?
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have to make my mind up about that.  Asking
    34        the witness does not help you.
    35
    36   MR. MORRIS:  OK.  Did you invent anything in your statement or
    37        notes to give a false impression of what was happening?
    38        A.  Absolutely not.  I would stand by those and say it is a
    39        true and accurate impression of everything I saw in the
    40        stores.
    41
    42   Q.   Paul Hickling -- you said you got some idea from
    43        Paul Hickling about Russia and the Third World; yes?  He
    44        was actually interviewed in the film about that, was he
    45        not?  Do you remember?
    46        A.  I know he was interviewed in the film.  What he was
    47        actually interviewed about, I cannot -----
    48
    49   Q.   He said something about "We can teach the Third World how
    50        to produce food more efficiently"? 
    51        A.  Yes. 
    52 
    53   Q.   How to feed themselves?
    54        A.  Yes.
    55
    56   Q.   That was Paul Hickling; do you remember?
    57        A.  That was Paul Hickling, yes, I remember that.  I think
    58        we probably asked him that question precisely because of
    59        the conversations we had had with him about it, and we knew
    60        that he felt that way about the Third World.

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