TartanTed

Far too fast in my opinion:

It seems I’ve been at this game for quite a while now. When I was a teenager I used a Bolex H16 to film, as part of a school documentary project, the opening of the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.

Throughout the coming years I took miles of Super 8mm film ranging from the neighbors spaniel dog to animated Subbuteo shorts, to holiday footage.

… and here we are decades later using modern technology to “work from home” using Zoom Video Conferencing software and a VPN connection to remotely access my desktop computer in the office.

Alan S Albin

Now, in my leisure time, I use all this modern stuff to instantly create YouTube and GoPro videos with fancy bells and whistles. It’s just so much easier than faffing about with heavy cine equipment and waiting for the results to come back in the mail from Hemel Hempstead.

Film stock was bought in lengths of 100 feet – process paid. So when you had exposed the film you mailed it to Kodak in Hemel Hempstead to be developed and mailed back to you all within 10 days.

No instant gratification in my pioneering film days of last century!
Here’s lookin’ at you Kid.