New podcast episode / video from the Q&A with Ged Jones at Blackpool 2023

[Eivind Mork]

The Humming Projector is back! This first episode after Christmas is a special episode with a full recording of the Q&A session at The Blackpool Film Collectors Convention in November 2023 with Ged Jones, former director at Derann, and Adrian Winchester.

The Q&A session can also been seen as video from Super8database if you prefer live pictures.

A huge thanks to Ged Jones, Adrian Winchester and the organizers for letting us publish this recording!

Highlights in this episode

• We learn how Ged got employed
• Branches and ventures
• Deals
• Adrian discovers he had a bootleg
• Hard times when video arrives
• Derann invest in 8mm when the others stopped
• Derek spots an opportunity in the gents’ loo
• Did Derek aim to be a world leader in Super 8?
• Open days
• Did Derek love to watch film?
• The best and the worst part of working at Derann
• Derek and Ged becoming consultants for “The Abyss”

For the audio, you can listen at our web page, Spotify, Youtube or your favorite podcast player.

For the video, go to Super8database's YouTube channel.

[Joe Caruso]

Excellent work, and to these Gentlemen, Cheers from Shorty

[Steve Klare]

Thanks for this, Eivind!

I had it on my bucket-list to visit Derann back in the day, but life got in the way. Things like these podcasts give those of us in a different time and place a look at what it must have been like.

I was basically done with film-collecting before I found out about Derann, but the idea of brand-new sound prints after the year 2000 was just too much to ignore (I DID try for a short time!), -and it sent me in directions I never expected after that.

In the end, even after I thought I was done, it turned out I wasn't even started, yet!

1999: "What do I need sound for?"
2019: "I think if we shove the stove and refrigerator outside, we can fit some more speakers in!"

[Brian Fretwell]

I went past Derann's old shop last week (99 high Street Dudley). The front is now a barber's shop!! Very sad!

[Joachim Schmidt]

Well done, Eivind, thank you so much for that! Editing the conversation must have taken a lot of time.

[Steve Klare]

What's very interesting here is when the camera looks out at the audience I'm pretty sure I recognize people from this forum. That one guy in the red jacket looks like Dominique De Bast and I'm pretty sure John Burgess is there too.

-anyone else?

[Eivind Mork]

You are correct with both. Brian and Melvin can also be seen. You can also spot me wandering around 😉

[Steve Klare]

I thought you'd be behind the camera!

(-personally, where I'd rather be!)

[Eivind Mork]

I filmed with four cameras. Three on tripods while I walked around behind the last stabilized one, and sometimes I came into the frame of the others. So toucan spot me a couple of times as I switch between the cameras.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Eivind,

Thank you for all your hard work, including traveling with 4 cameras and accessories. Ged tells wonderful, entertaining stories and Adrian sets it all up nicely. Derek Simmonds started posting on the Forum back in 2001. I never did get to meet him, so I very much enjoyed finding out more about what he was like.