AV News 187 - February 2012
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Regimental Museum, Enniskillen was really
helpful and gave us permission to use the images of the line drawings of the
soldiers and other memorabilia, such as regimental flags.
Thanks to Lillian Webb, Edgar
was able to photograph the
workhouse, where it really was
raining on the day the images were
captured. Lilian also came with us to
the Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre,
which enabled us to take a
photograph of the workhouse
foundation
stone
and
local
newspapers of the time.
There were no images to
illustrate the overcrowded workhouse and so a photograph of a scene at the
bottom of Paul Day's statue 'The Meeting Place', St Pancras station was used.
Many thanks also to Howard and Carole Bagshaw for taking us to the Black
Country museum, where we took photographs of the old cinema. In the
sequence, this would eventually become the hall in which Thomas was enlisted
and also provide the red velour cinema seats and the 1921 cinema sign.
However, we could not talk to Howard and Carole about what we doing, as
Howard was judging the National AV Championships, where Thomas was to be
shown for the first time.
To get the correct
documentation
for
Thomas we sent off
for copies of the
various certificates
(enlistment, marriage
and army discharge)
but these could not
be easily reproduced
in the sequence, so
we recreated them as
faithfully as we could.
The original glass magic lantern slides were copied using natural light and
extracts from the original reading that came with the slides were adapted and
edited.
Further research to ensure that dates and events would be
contemporaneous and fine tuning to the script, many, many hours on
Photoshop (including removing a number of wooden boards on the workhouse
and replacing them with windows), checking the music was of the period and
an afternoon with Derek recording the script completed the ingredients.
We were delighted with the final outcome - thank you Thomas.
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