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TITANIC
(Bedlam Productions/NatGeo)
Dir: Nigel Levy
Camera: Graham Smith

This is a 100 minutes Documentary special from the Production company who produced "The King's Speech" feature film & documentary. This documentary provides an insight into why the Titanic sank. Shot on High Def - Sony F3 - with multitrack flash drive audio back-up.

SEVEN DWARVES
(The Garden Productions/Ch4)
Dir: Richard Curson Smith
Camera: Graham Smith

This observational documentary series provides a thought-provoking insight into what it is like to be a person of short stature in a big world. Shot on High Def - Sony F3 - with SD flash drive audio back-up.

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE ? - "David Mitchell"
(Wall to Wall/BBC2)
Dir: Mary Crisp 
Camera: Rob Goldie

The 6th series of family history programs featuring popular celebrities.  Shot on High Def with tx'd audio via Zaxcom digital stereo unit, with SD flash drive back-up.

UNEXPLAINED: TONY ROBINSON AND THE... "Blitz Witch", "The Ghosts of Glastonbury", & "The Medieval Reincarnation"
(Flashback TV/Ch4)
Dir: Alex Dunlop & Thomas Viner  
Camera: Graham Smith

Tony Robinson & Becky MacCall front a three part series which brings a rational investigative approach to the world of psychic mysteries and the myths and legends of the past. Shot on High Def with tx'd audio via Zaxcom digital stereo unit, with SD card back-up.

THE FALLEN
(Minnow Films/BBC1)
Prod: Morgan Matthews
Camera: Graham Smith

A landmark, 3 hour feature-length film for BBC1 to mark Remembrance Sunday 2008. The Fallen will remember every British service person who has died whilst serving in Afghanistan and Iraq and those they have left behind. Shot on Digi Beta with tx'd audio via Zaxcom digital stereo unit, with SD card back-up.

THE DIETS THAT TIME FORGOT
(Silver River/Ch4)
Prod: Caroline Ross-Pirie
Camera: Matt Marschner

Series following 3 groups who live 3 different historical diets and lifestyles in a country house, and the conclusions. Shot on Digi.

THE MONARCHY
(RDF/BBC1)
Dir: Steven Lambert
Camera: Sam Keys/Peter Wilkinson

Now-notorious observational documentary going behind the scenes of the working Monarchy. Mostly self-shot.  Shot on High-def with radio linked audio to the camera, and backed-up on SD flash recorder.

THE RISE & FALL OF TONY BLAIR
(Brook-Lapping/Ch4)
Dir: Rob Coldstream
Camera:Rob Goldie

On-going defintive 3 x 1 hrs on the Premiership of Tony Blair, as related to Andrew Rawnsley, by those who served alongside him. Shot on DigiBeta.

KIDNAP & RESCUE: THE ROY HALLAMS STORY (IMDB)
(Mountain Film Unit (NZ)/Discovery-USA)
Dir: Tim Conrad
Camera: Chris Goodger

Pilot for 13 x 1hr series for Discovery USA, about kidnap victims. This reconstructed in Morocco, the 2004 kidnapping, detainment, and release of American Roy Hallums, from captivity in Baghdad. Hallums was the world's longest-held captive. Shot on High Def, with Flash Drive (MicroTrak) atmospheres.

EATING WITH: 'Oona King' / 'Minette Walters'
(Optomen/BBC2)
Camera:Graham Smith

8 x 30' programs which combine the personal histories of the food-loving celebs, with a slice of social history.

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? - "Bill Oddie"
(Wall to Wall/BBC2)
Dir: Simon Chu
Camera: Graham Smith

1hr- well known faces within the British media each embark on individual journeys to answer
some questions in regards to their own family history...

CUTTING EDGE: "Bad Behaviour'' - 'Ben' / 'Fred and Diane' / 'The Hollis'
(Lion TV/Ch4)
Dir: Hilary Clark
Camera: Jeremy Humphries/Graham Smith/Jeremy Humphries

3 x 1hr programs following the work of Behaviourist, Warwick Dyer, who works with parents
to change their discipline strategies, in response to their children's extreme behaviour. Shot on DigiBeta with tx'd audio backed-up on TCDAT.

FOOTBALL DIARIES
(Seek/Ch4)
Camera/Dir: Ian Denyer/Ian B. MacDonald

8 x 1 hrs following Weymouth Football Club under the new leadership of Steve Claridge as
Manager and Ian Ridley as Chairman, through the 200 3/4 season. The series also looked at
English football clubs such as Reading, Newcastle, Chelsea, Ipswich, Blackburn and Manchester City.

SADDAM'S IRAQ
(MEBC/BBC)
Dir: Janet Harris
Camera: Richard Gibb

4 x 1hr series on Iraq's post-war (2003) history, filmed in and around Baghdad. Shot on
DigiBeta with tx'd audio to the 790, backed-up onto pro Minidisc. Mono with M&S atmos's.

FIGHTING THE WAR
(BBC Documentaries and Contemporary Factual for BBC2)
Royal Television Society Award: Sound - Entertainment Non-Drama Production.
Awarded to: Sound Team - Fighting the War.

Dir: Janet Harris
Camera: Neil Harvey (Click here for photos)

6 x 1hours following the 2003 war in Iraq. Our program was filmed with the Black Watch Battle Group on their push into Basra from Kuwait. Filmed on DigiBeta with tx'd audio to the 790, backed-up onto pro Minidisc. Mono with M and S atmos's.

"The winning team demonstrated good judgment in dangerous and unpredictable conditions.
They exercised first-rate craft skills in the most difficult circumstances to ensure the key moments were captured"

AFGHAN WARRIOR: THE LIFE & DEATH OF ABDUL HAQ
(Touch Productions/BBC4)
Royal Television Society: Southern Centre Award for Best Investigative Documentary 2003
Dir: Malcolm Brinkworth
Camera: Ken Guest (Click here for photos)

80min special on the history of Afghanistan over the last 25 years, as personified by the recent murder of leader-in-waiting, Adbdul Haq, by the Taliban regime. Shot on DVCam with tx'd audio to the DSR570, backed-up onto pro Minidisc. Mono with M and S atmos's.

ANCIENT REFUGE IN THE HOLY LAND: UNEARTHING A REBEL HIDEOUT
(Nova/WGBH) Click here for photos
Dir: Kurt Wolfinger
Camera: Mike Haynes

Special following an American archaeological expedition aiming to find 2,000 years old artifacts buried in a remote cave system in Israel's Judean Desert. Shot on w/s Super 16mm with TimeCode DAT. Article published in Line Up magazine.

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL
(Newsweek Productions)
Dir: Veronica Young
Camera: Kirsten Johnson (Click here for photos)

1 hr special centred on an American Peace Camp in Croatia, set-up for young survivors of the
Balkan Wars. We follow a group of Bosnian musicians and children from Sarajevo on their journey to the Camp, and relate their experiences. Shot on PD150 with transmitted audio backed-up onto pro Minidisc.

ROYAL TV
(BBC TV)
Dir: Bill Treharne Jones
Camera: Mike Haynes

1hr special on the relationship between the monarchy and UK television, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

LIFE BEFORE BIRTH
(BBC Science)
Dir: John Hayes-Fisher
Camera: Mike Haynes

BBC1 series following the work of Kings College Hospital's Harris Birthright Trust. We portray
the Trust's head - world-renown Prof. Kypros Nickolaedes - and tell the stories of those that come through the doors of the Trust. Shot on DigiBeta with tx'd audio to the camera. Also TimeCode DAT.

DOCTORS TO BE - UPDATE
(BBC Specialist Factual/BBC1)
Dir: Sadie Holland
Camera: Mike Haynes

1hr special updating the on-going series of the 1984 intake of medical students at St.Mary's.
Shot on DigiBeta with tx'd audio to the camera. Also TimeCode DAT.

WHAT CHILDREN WANT
(BBC Current Affairs)
Dir: Matthew Thompson
Camera: Chris Goodger

BBC1 special about children and the way they get what they want ! Shot on Digi Beta with tx'd audio to the camera.

THE CURSE OF THE MUMMY
(BBC Political Documentaries)
Dir: Bill Trehearne-Jones
Camera: Mike Haynes

BBC2 1hr special about Margaret Thatcher's continuing effect on the modern Tory Party,
and how that legacy is responsible for their current state of uncertainty.
Shot before and after Ian Duncan-Smith's leadership election on DigiBeta with tx'd audio.

NEW DOCTORS TO BE
(BBC Science)
Dir: Sadie Holland
Camera: Mike Haynes

BBC series following the the first years intake of a radically new Australian Medical course
to train new Doctors, based at St. George's Hospital, Tooting.
Shot on DigiBeta with tx'd audio to the camera. Also TimeCode DAT.

CHILD OF OUR TIME RTS Nominated
(BBC Science)
Prod: Tessa Livingstone
Camera: Mike Haynes

90 minute special as a fore-runner to 20 year project charting the progress of a group of 20
babies born in the new Millennium.
Shot over 18 months transmitting audio to Digibeta, with TimeCode DAT TC/audio.

SECRET HISTORY: Children of the Iron Lung
(Granada/Ch4)
Dir: Ann Hawker
Camera: Ian Moss

Digibeta shoot tracing how Polio epidemics swept the UK in the 1950's and 60's, and
how the disease was finally conquered, as seen by victims and contemporary experts.

A FAMILY CENTURY
(Twenty Twenty TV/Ch4)
Dir: David Leaf/Susan Cardy/Kate O'Driscoll
Camera: Mike Haynes

50' special on Digibeta about a family of 113 living members which charts the Social history
of the 20th Century, through their family's story.

LAGOS AIRPORT
(Afro-Wisdom/Ch4)
Dir: Charlotte Moore
Camera: Mike Haynes

5x1/2hrs shot solidly over three months transmitting audio to Digibeta, with TimeCode DAT TC/audio, following the life of Murtallah Muhamed Airport, Lagos, Nigeria. (Article published)

THE CORONER
(Twenty Twenty/ Ch4)
Prod/Dir: Ian Taylor
Camera: Mike Haynes

4x1hrs shot solidly over three months in M and S stereo on TimeCode DAT TC/audio transmitted to DVPro, following the work of the Birmingham Coroner's officers.

HORIZON: Diet for Life
(BBC Science/BBC)
Prod/Dir: Tessa Livingstone
Camera: Mike Haynes

1hr special shot in the UK USA on TimeCode DAT TC/audio transmitted to DigiBeta, about fat and the science of it all !

DOCTORS AT LARGE
(BBC Science Features)
Prod/Dir: Tessa Livingstone
Camera: Mike Haynes

Third update series of 11 x1/2 hrs shot over eighteen months in M and S stereo on TimeCode
DAT TC/audio transmitted to Beta following the developing careers of young doctors,
first filmed 13 years ago when medical students.

THE DAY THE GUN FELLS SILENT
(BBC2)
Dir: Chris Sykes
Camera: Richard Ranken

2 x 50' shot in UK France on TimeCode DAT Super 16mm, to commemorate the 80th
anniversary of the signing of the Armistice.

EXTREME MACHINES III: Sub
(Pioneer/Discovery)
Dir: Hugh Whitfield 
Camera: Ben Hodgson

1 hour special on-board USS Miami - an American nuclear powered and armed sub - on NATO manoeuvres. Audio transmitted to BetaSP.

HOW TO BE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION
(BBC Political Documentaries)
Prod: Michael Cockerill
Cam/Dir: Charles Miller

1 hour special audio transmitted to DVPro following William Hague's efforts to be the 'Leader of the Opposition'.

AGENTS OF CHANGE
(Films of Record/Ch4)
Prod: Roger Graef
Camera: Michael Haynes

1 hour special audio transmitted to DVPro/DVC/Digibeta about the effect Management
Consultants have on modern businesses.

WHAT SHALL WE DO ABOUT JAMES ?
(Films of Record/Ch4)
Prod: Sue Dawson  |
Camera: Michael Haynes/Alan James

James is a difficult 12 year old, passed back and forth between separated parents. Neither can cope with him...