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Back on the Road
Well the downtime over the winter wasn’t as productive as I’d hoped with regards to my little projects. What with multiple HDD failures etc. Real life obviously takes precedence. But the good news is, for those […]
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Hard Drive Woe
To keep within the low budget during the production of Raiding the Lost Ark, I purchased a £100, 500GB Western Digital hard disk. Whilst it was only USB , it worked with my Macbook (not […]
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Nearly One Year On
Well, it’s almost a year since I started this blog and released Raiding the Lost Ark, so to mark the occasion, I checked out my domain stats for the first time. To be honest, I […]
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Credit Where Credit is Due
Today, I starting adding credits to the end of Inside Jaws. It soon became apparent that I should have been doing this since I began the project. I thought I had compiled a list somewhere […]
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Donations to Charity
As you know, or should know by now, goodness me I’ve been banging on about it for long enough… I do not make any money on these filmumentaries. That was never my intention and never […]
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Message from Colonel Dietrich
One of the great things about creating these filmumentaries is making contact with the very people that starred in the films or helped to put them on film as a member of the crew. I’ve […]
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The Imperative to Preserve
Many of my fellow fan editors feel an absolute imperative to preserve. Whether it’s Garrett Gilchrists restorative edits of Star Wars or Puggo’s 16mm and 8mm restorations or Adywan’s brave and successful efforts to preserve the […]
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A Shark Is Not Just For Christmas
A while ago, my family and I decided that we should do the secret Santa thing at Christmas. Rather than spending a fortune on each other and on the kids, we now pick a name […]
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Popcorn Taxi Screening
Once again, thanks to the power of social media and the coverage which Star Wars Begins and Raiding the Lost Ark received, I was contacted from ‘down under’ by Popcorn Taxi. They are a Sydney based film […]
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Film Festival
There’s nothing quite like hearing your film is part of the Phoenix Comicon Film Festival Official Selection to lift your spirits when you’re stuck at home with a virus. It appears I’ve been incubating the […]
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Raiding on NPR with comments from BBC, Web and Hollywood.
Thanks to the wonderful Beth Accomando (@cinebeth on Twitter) of San Diego’s KPBS, there is a piece about me and my filmumentaries on NPR this morning. The BBC Radio Film Programme presenter, Francine Stock along […]
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Lunch With Film Royalty
As you know, I recently contacted Michael Ford, the twice Oscar winning Set Decorator, to talk about his work on Raiders of the Lost Ark. He kindly invited me to lunch to have chat. Yesterday I met […]