IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

I think you'll be waiting in vain Roy. Menu-driven switching is far cheaper, lighter, more reliable and comprehensive than mechanical 'real' switches. Cameras This is a thread about technical problems. These are important, but I find exchange of ideas about real filmmaking more important. I mean : ...

Oh, here we go again, dear Tom. Sorry that I am very touchy about that subject. Perhaps too touchy ! I must say that I agree with you. After having seen one of my films people already told me : "Your film looks very professional !" I had mixed feelings. I was proud and I was worried at the...

There is open invitation from the people involved with the restoration project to pop in and film the progress...new footage/updates will be available in the future... there are many more newsreels available on a myriad of subjects (remember we at Newcastle ACA go back to 1927!) when they become av...

My first visit to an English pub ! I was a young lad of only 18. I had a drink in the local pub. It was the very first time that I visited an English pub. I drank two pints of bitter. Strange those large ones I thought. We don't have them on the continent. Some men were playing dice. An old man was...

Hi Willy, I am glad you enjoy the extra hour Britain gives you. with me the problem is always to remember to put our clocks forward or backward as the case may be. Enjoy your trip to Preston . I've never heard of Bridestowe, but whereever it is enjoy your visit. You should visit Beamish open air Mu...

Willy, I tend to agree with Peter on this one, it would be a boring film. I am always seeking new documentary subjects and I find that you have to take great care to get something different and, if possible, eccentric! Audiences get bored very easily and following a student round Cambridge would bo...

Willy, I tend to agree with Peter on this one, it would be a boring film. I am always seeking new documentary subjects and I find that you have to take great care to get something different and, if possible, eccentric! Audiences get bored very easily and following a student round Cambridge would bo...

Hi Dave, Mystery solved. Thanks. Roy Hi Roy, I think it is excellent that British time is not continental time. I always go to Britain on my birthday. Thanks to British time I could stay a fiftier one hour longer ! I enjoyed every minute of that hour very much. Oh, dear, that was already more than ...

Talking of editing I've just shot my first video footage for over 2 and a half years!! It's only 4 minutes long, and its so well shot it hardly needs editing!! BUT, it's 100% boring - just a silly trip to Cambridge - a rather boring place anyway! But one day I might shoot some marginally more inter...

I made a film in 2004 called "Seven Shades" which is a silent comedy in monochrome 4:3 done in the style of early romantic comedies. We even used the railway track- classic stuff! :D I would be grateful, Thurso man, if you send me a copy of that film. I will pay for it or I will send some...

Many thanks for these suggestions. Now I've thought of organizing a national festival. The embryo of an idea. We may ask the members of our Belgian clubs to make short funny films or comedies without any dialogues. Maybe these films are useful for international festivals like BIAFF, Guernsey, the Co...

The Party Some weeks ago we had a film show in our village hall. It was packed tight. My documentary "Breendonk" was shown. "Excellent film" most people said, but they seemed to be more impressed by a film that won many awards for "best humour". It made me think of Tun...

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Sorry for some spelling mistakes in my previous message. I should have checked the text before sending it.

[quote="Brian Saberton"]It isn't just for taking pictures of children or women that photographers have been picked on. I heard about a new, young member of a camera club in Glasgow who was quizzed by a policeman because he was taking photographs of the statues in George Square, right in th...

Thanks Dave & Willy, any other wiiners who read the forum will be very welcome to send a short disc of comments. Most welcome. I am staying in Lavenham, we rent a cottage on the square opposite the Guildhall. E Anglia is where we lived for 16 years (our longest in one place) and remains my spir...