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"[The 'Ages and Stages' series] was about looking at the child rather than saying if I want to have this effect I'll do this. Looking at the child and trying to draw from the child what he had to give. Recognize his stage instead of trying to superimpose."
-- Judith Crawley
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"Judy [Crawley] did a considerable amount of National Film Board work during the war, and both [Budge and Judy Crawley] are now involved in the affairs of the 40-member Crawley Film Company, in which Budge is a partner, Judy an executive. She likes working with children—especially her own—and hopes one day to film such children's stories as Katie and the Big Snow, about a snow plow. Ever since one of the children chewed up a piece of newly exposed kodachrome, Judy has done her film cutting at the studios. But scripting, which works in beautifully with family life, is a night chore at home."
-- Lotta Dempsey
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"From its humble beginnings, Crawley Films expanded to become, at one time, Canada's largest independent film company, with a $250,000 sound stage in the Gatineau Hills and a $500,000 studio building in Ottawa. Mr. Crawley usually was the producer and Mrs. Crawley the script supervisor. [...] Their reputation was established during the 1940s and 1950s with a long list of documentary and educational films, many of them done under contract to the National Film Board. [...] Mrs. Crawley was the director, cameraman and lab staff on many of the movies—22 of which were on child care that appeared under the title Ages and Stages. They were aimed at women and were immensely popular with women's groups."
-- Donn Downey
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"The Crawley Film collection, now on deposit at PAC (Public Archives Canada), includes film material on many of the films Judy Crawley contributed to between 1938 and 1975, as well as the production files for that period. These files contain contracts, memos, correspondence, progress reports and various drafts of scripts, allowing researchers not only to see the finished film, but to acquaint themselves with the often tortuous path between the inception of a film and its completion."
-- Yvette Hackett
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"In making films Mrs. Crawley has all the problems of a Hollywood director in getting just the right expression and the right reaction at the proper moment. (Most of her films are carefully written in advance, and must be directed exactly according to prepared scripts.) After the age of about two, Mrs. Crawley finds children are usually extremely conscious of the camera and are inclined to show off when it's their turn to act. It takes a lot of skill to get them to act normally—skill and sometimes skulduggery."
-- Cecile Starr
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"When [Judy Crawley's] first child was on the way, 19 years ago, an obstetrician warned her that having children would lessen her interest in making films. He was wrong. 'They were my most creative years,' she says now. In hospital with her first child, Judy Crawley wrote a script about babies and starred her infant in the film that resulted."
-- Dean Walker
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For QUOTES about a specific film by Judith Crawley, please see: A Study of Spring Wild Flowers Four New Apple Dishes Know Your Baby The Loon's Necklace
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