Post by ringatu4 on Oct 11, 2015 14:50:35 GMT 12
Hi Dave, in preparing to give King's Crew it's first public Gisborne screening next week, (to our CO Andy King who's now in Leighton House); I came across a 1993 VHS cassette which I'd meant for years to digitise. It dubbed across nicely this week into a 55 minute mpg file. It opens with a Movietone report on 30 Squadron Avengers in the islands, then covers their final parade on their 50th anniversary in 1993. The Wallis Avenger flew in. Rowley, a US Avenger squadron leader who trained the Kiwi pilots up there, came down for interview. Noel James, their WWII CO has a lot to say as they clamber over the Avenger. There are sundry interviews and lots of infill shooting. The news crew apparently handed the compilation to someone on 30S who later passed it to the 14 sqn CO who passed it to me in 2011.
At the time, I was finishing the KC film and strove for months to winkle out the 4 cut minutes of this compilation, as screened by the news channel. Unlike other civilised countries e.g. Oz and UK; the wretched channel demanded I pay a full commercial licence fee to access the 30 seconds of ATC footage for KC...and I was working pro bono! After negotiating for months and appealing to the ombudsman, I eventually gave up and simply inserted the news shooting script into KC, with a tag.
Now I wonder whether, as this compilation was gifted to the Squadron...anyone outside 30S has ever seen the footage. What do you think Dave? I could perhaps access parts of the footage under fair dealing, and go around the niggardly TV channel, if there's any interest.
At the time, I was finishing the KC film and strove for months to winkle out the 4 cut minutes of this compilation, as screened by the news channel. Unlike other civilised countries e.g. Oz and UK; the wretched channel demanded I pay a full commercial licence fee to access the 30 seconds of ATC footage for KC...and I was working pro bono! After negotiating for months and appealing to the ombudsman, I eventually gave up and simply inserted the news shooting script into KC, with a tag.
Now I wonder whether, as this compilation was gifted to the Squadron...anyone outside 30S has ever seen the footage. What do you think Dave? I could perhaps access parts of the footage under fair dealing, and go around the niggardly TV channel, if there's any interest.
