1/8/2023 0 Comments Silverstack lab vs livegrade![]() One big film that was available on V2000 however was An American Werewolf in London and I became obsessed with it and I’m still a massive fan of it today. Or maybe it was just that parental control was more relaxed in the village where I stayed. Nobody seemed that fussed about any of this actually until the Daily Mail got themselves involved and tried to ban them all, and that was the end of V2000. The cartoons were more frightening actually, or maybe I’d just become so desensitised to the video nasties it just felt like that. The man in the shop (and to be fair my dad too) luckily seemed pretty happy to hire kids some creepy Czechoslovakian cartoons that seemed to make up the majority of what was available but more importantly for young kids the more exciting sounding Zombie Lake or Nightmares in a Damaged Brain. Some enterprising folk somewhere though seemed to manage to dig out some ‘films’ for it – the usual video nasties but mostly deranged and seriously obscure un-categorisable stuff that I’ve never seen or heard of since. While my friends got to see Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws and so on we never had the chance to watch these at home because of this machines limited titles. My dad, for unknown idiosyncratic reasons bought an obscure third format called V2000. ![]() Unfortunately we didn’t have a VHS, nevermind a Betamax. This opened me to seeing some pretty strange films for a young child, which probably explains a lot about the films I make now. People easily forget how much video changed peoples viewing habits then and allowed access to films they’d likely never would have seen otherwise, especially if you were from a small village and not near an art house cinema in London. I grew up in the early 80s and although we were not well off by any means we did have a video recorder very early on. PC: You’ve been in the business now for some time, what got you into it, was it Photography or a love of film that started the fire ? Did you start out on set, or go to college/Uni ? I was interviewed by Pete Carroll for his great website Scottish Filmmaking News, discussing filmmaking, cameras, DIT and a lot of other ramblings: Home › Uncategorized › Interview With Scottish Filmmaking Newsīy YearZeroFilmmaking on January 22, 2019
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