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Topic: GROUP 9.5's 54th Get-Together (Film Fair)
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Dominique De Bast
Film God
Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted October 19, 2015 08:06 AM
Lee, it's only the second time I attended the Get Together 9,5 so I can only compare with last year and I found that 2015 was better, not only because there were more films and material but also because the 9,5 amateur films competition came back (it had to be cancelled last year due to a lack of enough entries). As last year, I discovered that in Britain the train tickets you buy at the machines have to be used the same day or are not valid anymore, I went to the ticket office to be sure to buy the right thing. Doing that, I was informed that there were works on the underground line I take to go to San Pancras station, so I planned an alternative route. I was ready and was on time at the train station on Sunday to discover (UK is full of surprises...) an iron curtain at the entrance of the train network for Harpenden ! I thought there was a strike but fortunately it was just a form of British humour and the man from the information desk told me to go upstairs (normally you take the train at the level -1), which I did and...nobody asked to see my ticket. Lee, you insisted that I took this picture :-)
-------------------- Dominique
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Dominique De Bast
Film God
Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted October 19, 2015 05:33 PM
Douglas and Paul, it really worthed it !I will do my best to be there next year as well. I'm not only happy for the material that was on sale and for the projections but I was also pleased to see now familiar British ninefivers and other collectors'faces (including members of this forum). That's what a day like that is about. There is something the pictures don't show : the daughters of the late John Ferrari came specially to sell to passionate people (instead of making profit by selling directly to a seller or through EBay) the collection of one of the former President of the Group 9,5. They had displayed pictures of their father on the wall behind the table on which they had the films (and some material). While I was having a look through the films, it was touching to hear people coming to say they knew personnaly John Ferrari and the girls also asked to some people if they knew him. It was absolutely not a question of business there. I was offered by one of the daughters a displayer with samples of different gauges and a pullover with a cine design as a souvenir. I didn't want to picture the corner as it would have been just a part of the day, which was not, it was something very special. Maybe someone took a picture for the British 9,5 magazine as a tribute, but as I never met John Ferrari personnally, I didn't feel I had the right to do that. Those who had the opportunity to go to the projection hall could see a screening of John Ferrari and Roger Spence who was also a former president of the British club.
-------------------- Dominique
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