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1970s - A short part of a 16mm sample reel
Using hi-contrast images shot in the Studio at Athos House
6 min 29 sec
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Some historical background notes on this piece
When I started my first proper job at ICEM in Richmond in 1968-69 I was tasked with making a pilot piece for a potential series based on a
black and white comic strip that at that time was running in a national newspaper - Jeff Hawke.
With the cooperation of the cameraman, Mick Sutton, we experimented with doing multi-exposure opticals by shooting travelling mattes on
hi-contrast 16mm film, getting those processed, then lacing them into the rostrum as a double layer companion to the new raw stock.
Of course this didn't always work properly and was sometimes a couple of frames adrift, but it was an interesting early experiment that
I included in the later assembly for the sample reel in the early 1970s.
The sample assembly was hacked together from 16mm rushes and accompanied by a separate 16mm magnetic audio track. We put together a front
and back end and some links using stills we shot ourselves in the studio. It was run for potential clients on a Steenbeck and often in fast
forward so that they could get a speedy flavour of the kind of stuff that was going through and ask to run at normal speed if something
useful to them caught their eye.
After a while we began to be asked to "drop something in" so we had the 16mm split reels telecined to VHS and made several copies.
This piece was digitised from one of those VHS copies so the quality is pretty poor. Every now and then the audio wows which is a result of
the unreliable nature of the various bits of kit. But it is an historical glimpse ... and only a flavour - the full reel is FAR too long !
At some time in the future I may add a few clips of individual productions as an archive of the sort of work we were doing during the 1970s.
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