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Lee Mannering
Film God

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From: The Projection Box
Registered: Nov 2006

posted November 23, 2015 08:25 AM

Mike Kent 'The real Mr Eumig'

I wonder if anyone knows if Mike is still around? We used to love his articles in the cine magazines.

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Simon McConway
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Doncaster, UK
Registered: Jun 2004

posted November 23, 2015 08:38 AM

Oh yes-he's around. He was a head of a primary school for many years until he retired a few years back. He wrote about education in The Times Ed Supplement and once mentioned he was showing Super 8 to his pupils. I emailed him saying I was in school doing the same thing as a teacher. He then bought a projector off me.

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Andrew Woodcock
Film God

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From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012

posted November 23, 2015 08:42 AM

He did some superb diy project stuff also in Movie Maker to aid sound in particular for Super 8 machines. One was for building your own 2ch mixer for recording purposes.

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Graham Ritchie
Film God

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From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006

posted November 23, 2015 11:33 PM

Andrew

Mike Kent was a regular in the magazine "Film Making" not "Movie Maker" that I am aware of.

The mixer you refer to was not two channel but four.

Lee, that photo, if I remember right was in "Film Making" and was about making a screen to fit in a hall if I remember right. Mike Kent was a very clever guy and came up with all sorts of ideas. I still have his book "Add Sound To Your Movies" I bought new way back in the 1970s.

In one issue of "Film Making" he covers the building a four channel mixer, which is also included in his book. I built one in the 1970s and still use it to this day, not for film anymore but DVD and it still works great...very smooth mixing.

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