[Tech1] Golden Oldie

[Pat Heigham]

If those of you happened to watch "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying 
Machines" last night on the box -

great film, wonderful cast, and there's a good write up on Wikipedia.

Apparently six replica aircraft actually flew, and fake noses and 
cockpits were fitted on the front of an Alouette!

However I despair of today's presentation - well there isn't any! The 
film was coming to an end, but presumably
the automated switch clipped the end music and bashed straight into the 
commercials.

I suppose no-one cares anymore.

And would it be too difficult to auto switch the aspect ratio?

Pat H



On 30/08/2022 10:40, Geoff Fletcher via Tech1 wrote:
> Here’s a shot of Dickie Bunn ready for action in a Gazelle helo.
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> Geoff F
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>> On 28 Aug 2022, at 00:33, Hugh Snape via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> 
>> wrote:
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>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>> *From: *Hugh Snape <hughsnape at talktalk.net>
>>> *Subject: **Re: [Tech1] Golden Oldie*
>>> *Date: *27 August 2022 at 14:32:12 BST
>>> *To: *tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk
>>>
>>> When I worked on OBs at TSW we used to “fly” a lot, very often in 
>>> the crew bus, a venerable vehicle with many stories of its own. We 
>>> would all contribute to the float for diesel and the arrangement 
>>> generally worked well. On one shoot however a scene hand who didn’t 
>>> generally work on outside broadcasts was part of the crew. On day 
>>> one we all gave the crew bus driver our cash contributions for the 
>>> week’s flying and all went well. Until expense claim time that is 
>>> when it was discovered that the aforementioned individual had not 
>>> only claimed the allowance  for  accommodation etc but also for his 
>>> contribution to the float! It caused a few problems . . .
>
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