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Sue Hall

Archive type: Interview
Archive ID: lcva_20862
Date: 2017
Location: Unknown
Chroma: Colour
Duration: 00:26:22
Format: Digital file
Credits: View
Transcript: View

Sue Hall co-founded Fantasy Factory with John 'Hoppy' Hopkins, after making videos with the squatting community in Kentish Town.  FF was a not-for-profit editing and post-production facility which served alternative and non-mainstream community of video makers from 1975 -1996.

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00:00 Vienna 01:35 My grandparents 01:56 A vision of Kathmandu 02:44 Learning how to argue 04:07 Beat poets at Albert Hall 07:05 Dropping out and wanting to go to Nepal 07:38 Back in London Squatting in the early 70's 10:19 Introduction to video by John Hoppy Hopkins 11:33 Participant observation 13:26 October 1974, a letter from the BFI 16:31 Our three rates policy 17:34 Assemble editing and replaying tapes 19:07 Impact on the squatter community: raising their profile 19:22 Making a living 20:26 Founding Fantasy Factory with John "Hoppy" Hopkins 22:08 Learning from the commercial sector 24:16 The squatters tapes: Our heritage

Credits

Interviewer: Heinz Nigg
Editor: Heinz Nigg
Ed Webb-Ingall
Camera: Andy Porter
Ieaun Franklin
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