AV News 177 - August 2009
RPS Northern AV Group, Snods Edge
G e o ff C o e
Our first meeting of 2009, on Saturday March 28th, was a highly successful
one, at which attendance reached the highest level of recent years (68) many
more and we'll need a
bigger venue!
As normal, we began
the day with attendees'
sequences, which were
many and wonderfully
varied in style and topic.
We started with Peter
Appleton's
"Fountains
Abbey", a very peaceful
sequence, which was
followed by Ian Britton's
"A year in pictures" - a
personal view of the big events of 2008. Geoff Burdis showed his
monochrome sequence, "Whitby, past and present", and Val Burdis showed
"Frost", with lovely images and very atmospheric soundtrack.
Maurice Dobson's "Three ships" did "what it said on the tin": told us about
three famous ships, Unicorn, Discovery and the Royal Yacht Britannia. Alex
Houston's very striking "The Underground City" put - to his own music images of underground Edinburgh. Lawrie Little's "Bastles, murder and
burials" told some tales of the history of the Otterburn area and then Jim
McCormick took us through part of the central Lake District on "The
Wordsworth Walk". John Patton's "Looking back at Derry" was a powerful
sequence revisiting his home town after 40 years and Keith Suddaby's
"Never-never Land" was another powerful tale, of a plan for a Jewish
settlement in Australia before the Second World War: as so often with Keith's
work, a master-class in AV minimalism. Bob and Marjorie Winter gave us
"Waltzing Matilda", a sequence centred on the Australian National Memorial
to their dead of the First World War, at Villers-Bretonneaux. Finally, David
Pickford showed the thought-provoking "The camera can't lie - can it?" As I
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