THOSE BEAUTIFUL TIMES OF "MAKING BETTER MOVIES" AND THE JOHN WRIGHT´S MOVIE GROUP IN THE "LEONID BREZHNEV"

When Super-8 cinema went into a coma in Spain, between 1981 and 1983, its strength continued in both Great Britain and Germany. Me, always an Anglophile, subscribed to "Movie Maker", in 1983,  and later, simultaneously, to "Making Better Movies."

Last night, taking a look at an issue from the late eighties, to read the technical test of the Zenith Krasnogorks-3 camera, which I have converted to Super-16, I took the opportunity to enjoy myself with the announcements of Tony Shapps and his world famous shop The Widescreen Centre, offering anamorphics, the Beaulieu projector, the Beaulieu 2016 16 mm motion picture camera and the Beaulieu 7008 super-8 cameras, both now elusive models; I bought my 2016 from him, at a special discount price, because was a "shop soiled" unit (although mint).  Tony Shapps, and his wife Beryl, are the parents of the current British transport minister, Grant Shapps esq., at that time a young student who delivered Fumeo 9119 cinema projectors to the homes of  customers of The Widescreen Centre!!!

In this issue I discover a photograph that makes me very excited, in which my wife and me we appear, very young, with all our British filmmaker friends.

Those were the good old days of "Movie Group" when, armed with our motion picture film cameras, and in the company of luminaries like Sir John Mills and Tony Rose (from whom I learned the secrets of cinematography), we traveled around the world, with our beloved leader, the late John Wright, aboard "Leonid Brezhnev" in the wonderful times of the Cold War and, also,  when collapsed the Iron Curtain, as I explain in this documentary, in which I take the opportunity to narrate the sad end of the once spectacular ocean liner, which  proudly wave its red star and the hammer and sickle through all the seas of the world universe, in all its roundness, and that today, in the hands of the mafia, half rusty, is a low-class brothel-casino in red China.

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BREZHNEV, MON AMOUR from IB CINEMA Motion Picture Films on Vimeo.

Quite a curiosity: when I published the S8 documentary "Brezhnev, mon amour" in Vimeo (narrated both in English and Spanish), the 3rd largest selling newspaper in Spain, "La Voz de Galicia",  dedicated a full color page to it (written by Fernando Molezún,  the great journalist from La Corunna; digital version: CLICK HERE )

AQUELLOS BONITOS TIEMPOS DE "MAKING BETTER MOVIES" Y DEL JOHN WRIGHT´S MOVIE GROUP EN EL "LEONID BREZHNEV"

Cuando el cine en Súper-8 entró en coma en España en 1983, su pujanza siguió tanto en Gran Bretaña como en Alemania. Uno, que siempre fue anglófilo, se suscribió a "Movie Maker" y posteriormente, de forma simultánea,  a "Making Better Movies". 

Ayer por la noche, echándole un ojo a un ejemplar de finales de los ochenta, para leer la prueba técnica de la Zenith Krasnogorks-3 (que convertí en su día a Súper-16), aproveché para recrearme con los anuncios de Tony Shapps y su mundialmente famoso "The Widescreen Centre", ofreciendo anamórficos, el proyector Beaulieu o las cámaras Beaulieu 2016, de 16 mm, y 7008, de Súper-8.

En dicho ejemplar descubro una fotografía,  que me hace mucha ilusión, en la que mi esposa y yo aparecemos, jóvenes, con todos nuestros amigos cineístas británicos. 

Eran los bonitos tiempos de "Movie Group" en los que, armados de nuestras cámaras de cine, y en compañía de luminarias como sir John Mills y Tony Rose (de quien aprendí los secretos de la cinematografía en paso estrecho), recorríamos el mundo, de la mano de John Wright,  a bordo de "Leonid Brezhnev" en los maravillosos tiempos de la guerra fría y con el desmoronamiento del telón de acero, como explico en este documental en Single-8 Fujichrome, en el que aprovecho para narrar el triste final del otrora espectacular trasatlántico, que ondeara orgulloso su estrella roja y la hoz y el martillo por todos los mares de nuestro inmenso planeta, en su inmensa e inabarcabale redondez, y que hoy, en manos de la mafia, medio oxidado, es un burdel-casino de baja estofa en la China roja. 

Toda una curiosidad, el documental "Brezhnev, mon amour", que, cuando lo publiqué, "La voz de Galicia" le dedicó una página completa a color. 
BREZHNEV, MON AMOUR from IB CINEMA Motion Picture Films on Vimeo.