Archives for November 2022

PLANE EXPERIENCES

Over the years, I have had some interesting experiences involving aircraft. Some have been amazing, others terrifying and are as vivid today as they were at the time they happened.

BRING ME A CONCORDE

In the 70s, I made two filming trips a year from New Zealand to Britain. This was a time when Concorde was a marvel in air transport. Before one of my trips back to England, I came up with the idea of promoting TV ONE in a novel way. I presented the idea to a producer at NZ television and he thought it was quirky so agreed to my innovative plan. My idea was to make a series of channel promos with the tagline: “TV ONE- GOING PLACES” which would play in gaps between programmes. I was given a magnetic decal (a moveable sticker) featuring ‘ONE’ written on it. It was the channel’s current logo and the decals were used on car doors to identify the vehicles as belonging to that channel. read more