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33-534: (Redirected from New Breed ) The New Breed may refer to: Film and television [ edit ] The New Breed , a 2020 documentary feature film about social entrepreneurs by Pete Williams The New Breed (TV series) , a 1960s American crime drama "The New Breed" ( The Outer Limits ) , an episode Music [ edit ] New Breed (music duo) , an American Christian Latin hip hop duo New Breed (band) , backing band of Israel Houghton The New Breed,

66-409: A 1960s band featuring Timothy B. Schmit "New Breed" (song) , by Joyryde, 2017 50 Cent: The New Breed , a 2003 documentary and video album by rapper 50 Cent Albums [ edit ] The New Breed (album) , by MC Breed, 1993 New Breed (Jay Park album) , 2011/2012 New Breed (Dawn Richard album) , 2019 Professional wrestling [ edit ] The New Breed (ECW) ,

99-452: A detailed knowledge of electronics is essential, has, alternatively, been based at Wood Norton Hall , Evesham. With the BBC seeking to reduce costs and in particular studio facilities, a decision was taken to sell Ealing Studios on the open market. In 1993, a sale, for 6 million pounds, was agreed with BBRK Group Limited , a group of special effects businesses, chaired by David Malcolm Bill,

132-535: A film dubbing theatre and the Rank Film Laboratories at Denham (where a considerable quantity of BBC TV film programme content was processed and printed). The courses provided instruction to trainees, culminating in a written theory test, with each either being tailored to film photography, film sound or film editing skills for incoming trainees in these departments. The BBC Engineering Training Department, for training in video work and all aspects where

165-466: A former advertising art director. The BBC had inserted a buy-back clause so that in the event that BBRK (for whatever reasons) put the site up for sale then the BBC would have first option to purchase. In 1994, 18 months later, BBRK found it necessary to sell the site and the BBC repurchased the site and sold it on for £1.00 to the National Film and Television School , (NFTS). In mid-2000,

198-555: A gamble" and moving to London to attend the Met Film School run by Ealing Studios in 2006. Soon after graduating, Williams made commercials , for which he won three consecutive Mofilm awards at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity . His first independent project was Indie Cities , a series which he screened on YouTube in 2006. Channel 4 picked it up, changing

231-714: A physical sync cable to ensure the picture and sound ran in lock. In later years, Eclair NPR cameras replaced the Arriflex machines and Nagra tape recorders replaced the EMI units. The Nagras made use of 'crystal sync', a system that provided synchronisation between the camera and the tape recorder remotely, removing the need for a physical cable. There were also over 50 cutting rooms, equipped with Steenbeck editing tables, working on every genre except News and Current Affairs. The editing suites came complete with movable film trim bins and Acmade picsyncs (picture synchronisers) for synchronising

264-459: A professional wrestling stable New Breed (1980s tag team) , a team consisting of Chris Champion and Sean Royal See also [ edit ] Dig the New Breed , a 1982 album by The Jam Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The New Breed . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

297-434: Is an Australian filmmaker, known for his 2024 debut feature fiction film Emotion is Dead . Pete Williams grew up in the northern Adelaide suburb of Elizabeth , South Australia . From a young age, he would borrow equipment from his grandfather, who was an amateur cameraman , for school projects. He was a fan of punk rock and emo music as a youth. He worked in advertising through most of his twenties, before "taking

330-613: Is derived from the 2000 album Emotion Is Dead by American emo band The Juliana Theory . A cast and crew screening in August 2023 received a standing ovation . Emotion Is Dead had its world premiere at the 2023 Adelaide Film Festival . It opened at the Capri Theatre on 28 June 2024, with special guests including former Holden workers. As part of a limited release national Australian Indie Cinema Tour, there were 30 screening events followed by Q&As with cast and crew, and

363-719: The Big Rocking Horse at Gumeracha , the old Holden factory, Hindley Street , the Adelaide Botanic Garden , Popeye (a boat on the Torrens River ), Farmers Union Iced Coffees , West End red tins and a frog cake . The film starred Jude Turner in his debut performance, along with Adam Tuominen , Tatiana Goode, and Gabby Llewelyn. It was written and directed by Williams, and co-produced by him and Brian Hayes , who had worked on Hotel Mumbai . The film took around two years to shoot. Its title

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396-589: The 35 mm projectors Kalee 21. The projection area was a long room (open plan) with projectors serving theatres E -J. There was a separate projection room in the same area for theatre K, which was 35 mm. There was also a dubbing theatre B, where 16 mm productions would be dubbed, and film dispatch and sound transfer suites, where the quarter-inch tape from Nagra tape machines would be transferred to 16 mm magnetic film. Film previews ran rushes, cutting copies, synch rushes, answer prints and transmission prints before going to telecine. Television Film Studios

429-626: The AFLW (2022, Disney+ ), and Making Their Mark , for which he was the story producer (2021, Amazon Prime Video ). Williams returned to his home town of Adelaide to make his first feature fiction film, Emotion Is Dead , whose central character is a young emo skateboarder who had lost his job when the Holden factory in Elizabeth closed down in 2017. The film was a passion project for Williams, and looks at "the impact of disability, class, and

462-659: The Dead and horror film The Descent (2005) were both shot on the lot. In 2007, Ealing revived the St Trinian's franchise, the second film, St. Trinian's, The Legend of Fritton's Gold was released in December 2009 and took over £7 million at the UK Box Office. Between these, Ealing released Easy Virtue (2008), directed by Stephan Elliott and Dorian Gray (2009), directed by Oliver Parker. Ealing Studios

495-455: The associated interview, at his table in the studio canteen he was surrounded by a large entourage of followers during the obligatory break period. In the 1980s, the BBC developed and expanded the use of electronic PSC (Portable Single Camera) location equipment and the use of 16 mm film on location gradually declined. The BBC also used the studio facilities at Ealing for filmed inserts where an electronic studio could not be used, such as for

528-710: The excavation site in Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59), The White Rabbit (TV mini-series, 1967), Colditz (1972–74) and the communal sequences in Porridge (1974–77). Programmes wholly shot on film were made there also, such as Alice in Wonderland (1966), The Singing Detective (1986), Portrait of a Marriage (1986), and Fortunes of War (1987). The BBC had preview theatres to run 16 mm sepmag film and 35 mm. The 16 mm machines were Bauer and

561-628: The film and sound rushes, and working with the edited cutting copy. The latter was especially useful when splitting the sound track(s) and adding additional effects, atmospheres, music and commentary tracks in readiness for film dubbing. Many programmes came out of Ealing from Alistair Cooke 's America edited by Alan Tyrer and photographed by Kenneth MacMillan to Z-Cars edited by Shelia Tomlinson and many others and Cathy Come Home edited by Roy Watts, assisted by Roger Waugh. These programmes had post production support, viewing theatres, transfer suites, dubbing theatre, maintenance; all these staff and

594-529: The film crews made up what was fondly known as the TFS Family. It was not unknown for major international film stars to visit the studios during BBC Television days. Shortly after The Eagle Has Landed (1976) was released in London on 31 March 1977, Michael Caine was present at the studios during his promotional tour for the film. Apart from the regular production staff and technicians involved with filming

627-558: The focus slightly to be about artisans, creating a series of three-minute episodes called Makers which ran from 2014 until 2015. This series gave rise to his 2020 feature documentary The New Breed , about three social entrepreneurs who created social enterprises . The film premiered at the Sustainable Living Film Festival in Istanbul , Turkiye, and was late aired on SBS Television . The film itself

660-401: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_New_Breed&oldid=1236350833 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pete Williams (director)#Career Pete Williams

693-483: The power of employment in Australia". The film features actors who live with disability in prominent roles, including Isi Sweeney, an actress with Down syndrome , and mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and grief are also portrayed by several characters. The film was shot with a very low budget (around A$ 300,000 , most of it funded by Williams), and features many Adelaide landmarks and icons, including

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726-547: The revived St Trinian's franchise. In more recent times, films shot there include The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) and Shaun of the Dead (2004), as well as The Theory of Everything (2014), The Imitation Game (2014), Burnt (2015) and Devs (2020). Interior scenes of the British period drama television series Downton Abbey were shot in Stage 2 of the studios. The Met Film School London operates on

759-461: The site. The site was first occupied by Will Barker Studios from 1902. From 1929, it was acquired by theatre producer Basil Dean , who founded Associated Talking Pictures Ltd. He was joined on the management level by Stephen Courtauld and Reginald Baker . In 1931, they built Ealing Studios, transferring all production there in December of that year. When Dean left in 1938 to be replaced by Michael Balcon from MGM, about 60 films had been made at

792-448: The studios as a base for location filming of dramas, documentaries and other programmes; shot on 16 mm and occasionally 35 mm film. Led by a director, these crews usually consisted of a Lighting Cameraman, a camera assistant, a lighting technician (known as a 'spark'), and a sound recordist. Initially these crews were equipped with Arriflex ST cameras and EMI L2 quarter inch tape recorders that had to be tethered to one another with

825-537: The studios on Ealing Green in 1955, for £300,000, though productions bearing the Ealing name continued to be made at the MGM British Studios at Borehamwood for two years. In 1958, Associated British Picture Corporation acquired Ealing’s parent company, Associated Talking Pictures, together with its extensive film library. The BBC based its Film Department at the studios; and at its peak 56 film crews used

858-490: The studios were sold again to a consortium led by Fragile Films' Uri Fruchtmann and Barnaby Thompson, Harry Handelsman and John Kao , with an intention to revive the fortunes of the studio. Handelsman's Manhattan Loft Corporation redeveloped the 3.8-acre site to include the existing Grade II listed sound stages. The studio has since begun to produce theatrical films again, such as Lucky Break (2001), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), and Valiant (2005). Shaun of

891-611: The studios. Balcon discontinued the ATP name and began to issue films under the Ealing Studios name. In 1944, the company was taken over by the Rank Organisation . In the 1930s and 1940s, the facility as ATP and then Ealing Studios produced many comedies with stars such as Gracie Fields , George Formby , Stanley Holloway and Will Hay , who had established their reputations in other spheres of entertainment. The company

924-564: The world, and the current stages were opened for the use of sound in 1931. It is best known for a series of classic films produced in the post-WWII years, including Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), Passport to Pimlico (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), and The Ladykillers (1955). The BBC owned and filmed at the Studios for forty years from 1955 until 1995. Since 2000, Ealing Studios has resumed releasing films under its own name, including

957-524: Was Hue and Cry (1947) and the last Barnacle Bill (1956). The best remembered Ealing films were produced between 1948 and 1955: Whisky Galore! (1949), Passport to Pimlico (1949), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Man in the White Suit (1951), The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953), The Cruel Sea (1953) and The Ladykillers (1955) are all regarded as classics of British cinema. The BBC bought

990-579: Was also instrumental in the use of documentary film-makers to make more realistic war films. These included Went the Day Well? (1942), The Foreman Went to France (1942), Undercover (1943), and San Demetrio London (1943). In 1945, the studio made its chiller compendium Dead of Night . In the post-war period, the company embarked on a series of comedies which became the studio's hallmark. These were often lightly satirical and were seen to reflect aspects of British character and society. The first

1023-556: Was also the home before, during and after 1977, of the BBC TV Film Technical & Training Section run by the Senior Assistant, Training, Frank A. Brown. Courses were based in a lecture room at the studios, typically lasting 6 weeks, and comprised both theoretical training, with extensive information-sheet documentation being provided, plus day excursions for practical experience sessions to film cutting rooms,

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1056-566: Was made as a social enterprise, with proceeds going towards equipment and training for young filmmakers from disadvantaged backgrounds worldwide. At this time, Williams was living in the United States, livinng in Portland, Oregon , after spending 10 years in the UK. He directed the film, which was produced by Vincent Vittorio. Other television projects include Fearless: The Inside Story of

1089-480: Was thereafter shown in other Australian cinemas. Ealing Studios Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in west London , England. Will Barker bought the White Lodge on Ealing Green in 1902 as a base for film making, and films have been made on the site ever since. It is the oldest continuously working studio facility for film production in

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