FORGOTTEN IMAGES OF HINCKLEY. A film by Michael Skywood Clifford

A film made my Michael Skywood Clifford

This video has had over 12,000 views since it was posted in 2009.

I had taken the panorama of Castle street around 1978 one Sunday. I had just brought a Zenith B 35 mil camera and was getting used to it. Decades later, I was looking through old negatives/ contact sheets, I thought these images would be interesting to join together although at the time I really didn't know how I would do it. I was used to Photoshop, but not for something like that.

So that is how the idea for the film came about. The film was created on an early version of Photoshop and Adobe Premiere.

My understanding of video was elementary and most video cameras were analogue and scanners were somewhat crude. Some od the pictures were from library books or library archives, some from sketches or from old magazines. Many photos were from my own personal collection and a couple by the late Hinckley photographer Bill Wagg. All of the photos were scanned into a Dell computer with 245MB of RAM (!) to create this film. How did the technology ever manage!? The film lasts just over twelve minutes. This was made when websites like HDP&P was still quite young. The music is simply sublime.

I'm really glad that so many people have enjoyed it. Wonderful.

MSC