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Behind the Film - Inside the ILFORD factory

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I thought this short documentary on the making of film at Harman Ilford to be quite interesting.

 

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Thanks for that. It was well made - like the films themselves . However I thought it a pity that given the company is British, still produces its wares in Britain and has British staff whom we saw and heard, a British narrator( there are many very good ones) could not have been used. I would not have expected an "Old Etonian " to have provided the commentary on say Kodak

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It was great!!! made me go buy some PanF+ LOL
 

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Now you know why sometimes you get weird marks you don't know what could be causing them - clunk-clunk-bash-bump...
 

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I was going to put the link up this morning, but you beat me to it !
Thanks for sharing.
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Great film. Shows what a treasure this plant and the employees are. What a great story, love the people.
 

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...I thought it a pity that given the company is British, still produces its wares in Britain and has British staff whom we saw and heard, a British narrator( there are many very good ones) could not have been used...
The video production company wasn't British either. Camera operators and narrator -- one person overlapped those categories -- as well as the camera shop used for some scenes are from/in Texas.
 

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The video production company wasn't British either. Camera operators and narrator -- one person overlapped those categories -- as well as the camera shop used for some scenes are from/in Texas.
It may have been that a small U.S. company agreed to do the video and this may or may not have made it less expensive for Harman but either way it has the added advantage of being geared for the N American market which is by far Harman's biggest customer from what I recall Simon Galley saying in the past. It was very professionally done and the narrator's whole delivery was excellent. Whoever they were, they were far from rank amateurs

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