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Good processing of this interesting image Tony. I really enjoyed looking at your civil war folder and now I see you've got other wars to work on. Thanks for sharing. Take care.

BR,  Holger

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I am fortunate enough to live in an area where there is a large

interest in reenactments. This weekend was the D-Day invasion with

1,500 actors, it was a grand day out

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My God, Tony, you're like a time-travelling war correspondent. I really enjoy your takes on these re-enactments. The best compliment I could give you is that you manage to make them look real not staged events. I've seem a lot of pictures of re-enactments and yours are the best by far. You're the faux Robert Capa of photonet.
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The funniest thing is that De Gaul declared that he liberated France afterwards! Nothing as dirty as politics!

 

Cheers, Tony!

 

PDE

 

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This folder is the simplest start to look at alterations. I'm immediately reminded of an album cover, Primal Scream 'XTRMNTR.'

P.s., I am from Dobcross where John Schlesinger filmed yanks. My family were extras (cos we're slender.) Actually I was the stand-in for the star boy cos he had to go to school also, so it's not always the back of his head.

Richard Gere loved drinking beer and playing games in the top pub.

I was in the last year of junior school, and it was a week off school. The whole village was altered. TV aerials taken down, road markings painted out, a three storey mural at the end of my modern estate. 

Classic movie making, huge cameras, tripod not the word for those trollies as big as buildings. 

Everybody in 40's fashion. Steller catering.

They brought in full size platoons of American extras to be GI extras looking American cos they were American. 

And you're hanging around all the time, so there's like 20 or 40 soldiers & they parked themselves away from the main shooting area in the square at the top of the lane from Church Fields, which was one of the native kids hangout spots. 

They'd give us Limey kids the orange out of their lunch boxes, sign autographs, hang out. 

We have Yanks weekend now. Last one the other month a Lancaster bomber was flying around, I mean there's only one or two left. 

40,000 workforce including my 6 grandparents were making 27 a week in Chadderton, Oldham, my town. 

The aircraft factory is gone now, my dad worked there 37 years all his career. The 748 was his baby but he also worked in Santa Barbara & China & many places. 

I wouldn't trust him with a box of matches & he was the nights production manager on the Vulcan in flight refuelling mod. 

There was also a tough film called 'Resurrected' by Greengrass (Bourne,) with a local guy Thewlis in it made in the next village Delph. 'Threads' Sheffield is another movie. Sheffield coal & steel & Manchester & canal to Liverpool. That first splitting of the atom in Manchester is still off limits. 

Oldham is the top of the hill from Manchester, Churchill was here 3 years & crawled away half dead declaring people need to be ruled. Saddleworth is the buffer zone between the red & white roses, & the bottom of the blue Scottish mountains from Glasgow. The Union Jack was formed. The Shaw's family from Ireland I think. I was born up the road in Shaw. I see my old dinner lady Mrs. Shaw down the street. 

I see Shaw's Rocks directly out my window. 

Knight Hervey Rhodes (Rhodesia!) lived in Dobcross. One summer holidays off school I painted a massive fence for him & bought a Vivitar 28 mm F2.

My Dads Dad was an instrument maker with Tim Berners Lee's Mum & Dad at Ferranti 'Measurents' in Dobcross Delph. 

I must stop!

I'm veteran Internation Press Corps, Balkans. Magnum didn't have an office in London so Abbas & a couple of others set up a support network branch called Reportage Photos. 

There's a few different photographers my name & I was more writing pro-active in the arena. My pictures are in storage. There was only a handful of us at Reportage, including photographer Simon Norfolk, don't know what he's up to, did some amazing group portaits in Afganistan recently so so.

 

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