At Home-2010

At Home-2010
Self Portrait

Tony Wade's Television Factory

Note*** ALL the videos below are now on my You Tube channel-http://www.youtube.com/user/TheTonywade

Please visit and comment if you feel like it.

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"SURVIVORS OF THE 60's"


An archival television recording of interviews and reminiscences of people who went through the massive socio-cultural changes of the 60's.

For better or worse, arguably the 60's changed the world.

I am compiling a videotaped record of the people who lived it, and/or changed the 60's.

We will be shooting all over the world, but mainly in the Westernised countries of Europe, UK, North America and the South Pacific.

The tapes will be used to create a mammoth documentary series on how the 60's influenced the world.

This oral/visual history will consist of interviews with regular people, 'stars' and anyone with something to say.

Visual elements needed are home photos-stills/movie/video/archival material, and updated shots of now.

The project is in the formative stage. I need input from people willing to contribute their time or personal interviews, to this aural/visual archive.

The people that 'made' the 60's, are now in their 60's.
This massive TV documentary needs to be done NOW!

Aural history, is how the bible was passed down, and how we will more personally remember each era.

It is working for every decade since radio & television were invented.

Lets's do it for the 60's. We after all, have the technology.


NEEDED:
-PEOPLE WILLING TO TALK ON CAMERA
-VIDEOGRAPHERS
-IDEAS


I need interested parties and willing participants, to contact me at:

tony@yesterdaystudio.com

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THE BODY OF THE BLOG!

Welcome to my first blog. Actually it will be a video blog, not filled with my tiresome musings, but hopefully resplendant with creative television programs and other visual detritus.

I am a Television Producer/Director/Writer by trade. 1967-??

The blog will have thoughtful, insightful, superbly crafted, award-winning motion pictures, devoted to humour and information, presented in an entertaining manner.

It will also contain some home movies shot between 1969 and the present, as well as a few television programs that I have produced and directed over the years.

I have done about 2137 documentaries, TV series and episodes since 1967; most of them I don't have copies of, as I didn't, and still don't, own them.
I mostly worked for networks and production companies in Canada.
Before 1985 much of it was shot on film, before we had home video to record them off air.

In 1973, I interviewed 2 veterans of the Boer War, 1899-1902.

After the film had been on the air, the network, CTV, threw the film away!

This was historic original footage of guys who fought in a war during Queen Victoria's reign. (They were about 97 at the time of the interview).

I still can't believe that CTV could chuck an important piece of history into the bin...Bastards!

What I do have are from old VHS or Betamax that happened to be lying around in boxes. Some of it is not in great shape.

Please check out the titles here, then go to YOU TUBE and view them on my channel-http://www.youtube.com/user/TheTonywade

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FYI, please check out the WADE FAMILY HISTORY at my son Adam's site... http://www.adamwade.ca/


"It is a sordid account of wanton disregard for human values and great skill at wrecking ships off the Cornish coast since 1137 AD. ;-)"

(We love it. Adam Wade is continuing the job done by Jean Wade of Yakima WA. and Arthur Wade of Trevalga Cornwall England, who have done a fantastic job of research over a period of 80 years)




My eldest son Markus, is motorcycling around the world...Check out his travels and adventures...

http://www.flibbertgibbet.com/hoipolloi/?p=1392






Mt Steele, Yukon

Mt Steele, Yukon
Base camp, 10,000 feet

About Me

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St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Tony Wade is an Award-Winning International Television Producer/Director/Writer. He is the recipient of the International Film and TV Festival of New York Medal, among many others. In his 40 years in the business, he spent 20 years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as other networks. He has been a partner in TV production companies, and freelance for many networks and production facilities. His work has taken him to Australia, USA, Yukon/NWT and all areas of Canada. His four children, Markus (44), Adam (35), Christopher (21), and Hayley (19), live in Canada. His granddaughter Sadie (15)and grandson Mason (2) also live in Canada. His company 'Yesterday Studio' is currently editing videos and developing television programs and internet video content, including production and distribution, based in St Leonards-on-Sea, England. Tony is available for Producing/Directing/Writing and Editing worldwide. -http://www.yesterdaystudio.com -tony@yesterdaystudio.com

Tuesday 13 January 2009

Racing Logger (Albert Rock)

Tookie Mercredi and I started shooting this documentary in 1995 just before I was laid off by CBC North. I continued the project with CBC Vancouver and it eventually went to air with a different soundtrack in the north because I had used a 'non-native' voiceover when I put it together down south.

Albert Rock is an inspiration to anyone that is impressed by a Native kid with no formal education that can baffle the greatest engineering minds in auto-racing and data-logging.
(He doesn't like formal 'Engineers')

Al Rock founded ACR Systems in 1982 to monitor and record temperature and humidity in HVAC systems for industry. He spent too much time sleeping next to boilers and having to wake up to take readings, so he invented DATA LOGGERS.

He took the company way beyond that, into auto racing with Formula One and Indy Cars; medical research; electronics; aerospace; manufacturing and any industry you can think of in over 100 countries.

All this from a Native kid who grew up between Alberta and BC, going to school wherever he ended up on the day.

Al is a man I really respect and this is the story of his life up to the point in 1995 when we shot this documentary.

He has gone a long way since then.
[23' 20"]
http://www.motionbox.com/videos/0a99dab9101de3c087?iid=switch_player_&type=hd