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ralph stephenson
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Camera Operator, Photographer-Stills, Researcher, Sound Recordist |
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About:
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I've worked in cinema, press, publishing, radio & TV since I was 15.
My skills formed very early from home hobbies and in Nottinghamshire schools I attended.
I've lived in and worked from London since 1970.
I was a radio DJ (1966 to '71) as Robin The Hood ('67 -68) Colin King ('68) Martin West ('68-'70) and Robin Randle ('70-'71)
From 1961 I've built experience in presentation, journalism, photography and film making.
An early presenter on BBC Radio Nottingham ('68-'69) I moved to Radio Brighton ('70-'71)
I campaigned for commercial radio (1967-72) starting the original
Radio Free London in August 1968 with ex Radio Caroline DJs;
Spangles Muldoon, Stevie Merrick, Jason Wolf and supporters.
after running stations in Nottingham with local "pirates"
John Pearson, Dave Manyon, Peter Golding and others.
As RFL flourished, continued by other London "pirates" it inspired many others to follow.
It had been the first major station not to "hide" behind short and pre-recorded transmissions but to blatantly go on air live with as professional a sound as possible. In that first week the aim was to stay on air until caught which took three days! The publicity impact resulting was enormous.
RFL is the direct ancestor of stations that eventually went legal;
Kiss FM, LGR and others - as they have freely acknowledged.
In 1969 I assisted Barry Schofield to publish
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE FREE RADIO ASSOCIATION booklet.
My first 16mm film documentary 'S.A.U.' (1972-3) was distributed by Andi and Pam Engel's POLITKINO (1973-76) then THE OTHER CINEMA (1976-84) I was helped very much by Cinema Action Collective to complete this film and by Nick Reid for financing it's post production.
I've worked with a wide range of producers, directors, artistes and companies since 1973 in various roles, though mainly as cameraman in the past 20 years.
I traded as Associated Media Services (1986-89)
then as Woodvale Television Projects (1989-2001)
then as WOODVALE (2001-03)
then in my own name since Sep 2003.
I founded, own and run THE LIBRARY OF HOME MOVIES
(now LHM LONDON)
- a unique service in Europe (maybe the world) since 1995.
It's a library exclusively of home movie films, from the 1920's onwards
(also now including video from the 1970s onwards)
available for researchers and programme makers.
If film-to-video clients choose to have their footage represented by LHM, they get a discount on usual transfer prices and a 12 percent share of any fees earned from research or screening sales.
Other footage has come from direct purchase sources.
Leading broadcast clients include: ITN, Carlton, Harlech, Anglia,
BBC People's Century, Horizon, Money Programme, BBC London and Fragment Films - now independent producers of the ITV-1 series;
THE WAY WE WERE.
Recent video clips of my work, including rock band Elephant Shelf, singer/composer Alisha Sufit, Alquimia, Delta Ladies, Dave Shannon, Serica, Jeanie Barton, Big Chief, Atila Husyen, Tim Collinson, Delta Tom Colborne, and London College Of Fashion Final Year designs by Ada Zanditon are now on YouTube, MySpace, Blinkx and more sites than I can keep count of!
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eMail:
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[Click to Contact]
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Tel:
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020 8348 3437
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Mobile:
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07916 217 652
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Address:
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Greater London
United Kingdom
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Agent:
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Adams Picture Library (stills) since 1986
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Company:
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RALPH STEPHENSON
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Date of Birth:
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1946-05-08
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Nationality:
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United Kingdom
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Experience:
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44 yrs
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Languages:
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English- a bit of German, French and Spanish
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Training and Skills
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Formal Training:
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- see intoduction
- CAMERA OPERATOR - FILM,VIDEO & STILLS
- Sound recordist, producer, researcher, format historian
- Several Audio Visual media restoration skills
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Other Skills:
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Since 2000, I own DVCAM & DV pro. facilities.
I shoot news, topicality, documentary, PR, music video, corporate, training, fine art, art performance, theatre and serious music productions.
Other services include THE LIBRARY OF HOME MOVIES (LHM LONDON) book illustration and editing, DVD/CD recording and duplicating and location audio recording.
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Additional Information
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My thanks to the late Gerald Nethercott, Barbara Anne Zanditon, Simon Wallace, Diana Stone, Vicky Martin, Barry Schofield, Gustav Lamche, Don Schelldrup, Lin Solomon, the late Marc Karlin & Maurice Hatton, Pam & Andi Engel, Norman Tozer, John Hopkins, the late John Chesterman & Robin Murton, Freddy Warren, Chris Reeves, Mike Manifold, Tony Cook, Eddy Gray, Viv Fogel, Vincent Bootle, Alan Eirira, the late John Peel, John Pearson, Phil Fothergill, David Jamieson, Iain Purdon, Oil Factory, Deborah Browne, Mick Kidd, Ian Kellam, Annie Lennox, Fletcher DuBois and many others!
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Credits
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ralph stephenson's Page Statistics
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