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'REEL LIFE', a Memoir by Tony Sloman
Producer, Director, Film Editor, Sound Editor, Writer.
Tony Sloman has done it all. |
Read more at in70mm.com The 70mm Newsletter
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Written by: Thomas Hauerslev |
Date:
23.09.2021 |
Readers
familiar with the original
Widescreen Weekend, Bradford, England are no doubt also familiar with
the amazing Tony Sloman
and his fantastic introductions to a long line of classic 70mm films.
• Go to in70mm.com review of 'REEL LIFE':
Reel Life
grips and engages from the start
I met Tony in 1997 in Bradford, and almost every year onwards, we spent a
"widescreen weekend" together with beers, wine and PLENTY of vintage
classics on the curved screen. Always a pleasure and an inspiration to be
with Tony. Tony became a valued friend of Wide Screen Weekend, 70mm film -
and myself. Few people - if any - can match Tony's colorful (and often very
long and exciting) introductions, which would set the scene for the next
large screen spectacular. Long forgotten stories about Ty Hardin in "The
Battle of the Bulge", and the fact that by 2011 Director Michael
Anderson was still alive at age 91, and lived in Toronto, when Tony
introduced
"Operation
Crossbow". I mean, who know
these kind of things? Tony does - of course.
I have never met anyone with more knowledge about films, actors, directors,
and the colourful back stories of movie production. From
David Lean and
Stanley Kubrick to
Freddie Young - he
(almost) met them all. The
"Human Movie Database"
knowledge Tony possesses is staggering wealth of knowledge. He is
accurately
described as a
true "child of the cinema", and a lifetime devotee of everything cinematic.
Amazingly, Tony must be at least 120
years old, as he have seen ALL
70mm film
presentations in London when they came out originally more than 50+
years ago. Many times over the years we have talked about films in the bar -
well, mostly Tony anyway, but he has the ability to entertain at the same
time, which makes his stories really come to life.
I am pleased to say I was delighted by the news that Tony is about to launch
a book with his memoirs about spending a life time in the British movie
industry. Very soon on these pages, in70mm.com proudly presents a review of
his book. Until then,
GO BUY TONY'S BOOK!
Tony has given his kind permission to use a few things from the book, and
what else could be more interesting for a 70mm audience than this?:
MGM at Borehamwood was the only studio
in Europe to have its own laboratories and special fx department in the
studio itself, and that department was under the great fx man Tom
Howard, who had won his Oscars for Blithe Spirit and tom thumb.
I made an appointment to see the great man, and arrived at the
laboratory on the MGM lot a little early. In the foyer, sitting at a
table, were two young Americans, who introduced themselves as Doug
Trumbull and Con Pederson, and they were over here for work on Stanley
Kubrick’s new project, a space film called, tentatively,
2OO1. Stanley
Kubrick! My hero!! (I didn’t say). I just asked them all about it, and
they told me that, since it was an MGM picture, they would be doing it
all here, at MGM Borehamwood. It would be cheaper, and there would be no
Hollywood interference. Besides which, Stanley Kubrick now lived over
here, after Dr. Strangelove and Lolita. I hadn’t really time to chat
with them, but we exchanged pleasantries, and they invited me to look
over some time at the sets they were building, which I eventually did.
I then went up the stairs to Tom Howard’s office, and noticed on the
wall a large transparency of the funeral scene from Doctor Zhivago,
where the young Yuri watches his father being buried. I’d seen the film
only a couple of weeks before, at the Empire, Leicester Square, in the
70mm. opening print. The door opened to reveal Tom Howard, who saw me
looking at the picture. “Hi,” he said, “I’m Tom Howard. You must be
Tony.” Then, looking at the picture on the wall: “Like it?” “Yes,” I
replied, “I’ve only just seen it.” “What do you think of the sky?” I
looked at the picture. “Oh, David Lean’s skies are always ravishing--”
Tom cut me off. “That’s not David Lean’s sky. That’s ours. He just shot
the foreground.” And then I knew I was in a den of wonders, a secret
world where everything might not be quite as it appeared. I was clearly
in the right place to lose our cigarette packet from the fight scene,
and nobody would ever notice, and I secretly thanked Val Guest and Bill
Lenny for giving me this opportunity. How thankful I would be eventually
to know, and be able to work with, the wonderful Tom Howard would
greatly show in the next time that I was to work at MGM, on what was to
become arguably the greatest, most original, filmed television series of
all time, for I would be working virtually hand-in-hand with Tom
Howard’s superb FX department on the television series entitled The
Prisoner.
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More in 70mm reading:
Review: Reel Life
grips and engages from the start
Speech for Tony
Sloman 2004
Widescreen Weekend,
Bradford, England
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How to get 'REEL LIFE', a memoir by Tony Sloman
Quoit Media Limited, UK
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Tony
Sloman in front of the CINERAMA red curtain in Pictureville cinema
(Bradford, 2011), introducing "Operation Crossbow" in 70mm. Picture: Thomas
Hauerslev
Quoit Media Limited is delighted to announce that 'REEL LIFE', a memoir by Tony Sloman, is now available to pre-order at a
discount price of £9.99 (plus overseas P&P).
Producer, Director, Film Editor, Sound Editor, Writer.
Tony Sloman has done it all.
Growing up in London's East End in the 1950s, Tony's dream was to work in the
film industry. His career began assisting on blockbusters such as Hammer Films'
mighty One Million Years B.C .. He then moved into television, spending 10
months working on the cult series The Prisoner and ITC's crime series Strange
Report. His C.V. would go on to boast titles such as Wonderwall , Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang , Orson Welles' Great Mysteries , The Bounty , and many more.
One of Europe's most respected movie aficionados, Tony was twice elected
Members' Governor of the BFI and has been a film reviewer for Radio Times for
over two decades.
Including compelling tales of life behind the scenes with such movie-makers as
Michael Winner, Lindsay Anderson, Raquel Welch, Patrick McGoohan, Beatle George
Harrison, and countless others, REEL LIFE is an insightful look at life on the
other side of the camera.
For more information and to pre-order at the discounted price, click the link
below:
PRE-ORDER REEL LIFE
Paperback, 304 pages with approx 40 photographs, ISBN: 978-1-911537-15-1
NOW AVAILABLE to pre-order at discounted pre-orde price:
PAPERBACK £9.99 (plus P&P IF OVERSEAS), full price will be £12.99
Click Quoit Media Limited to pre-order, depending on your location.
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