BALLOON GAME WITH NEWCASTLE BUS SPOT ULTRA

I seem to have enough film to film two bus spots on Newcastle so I'm going to have to trim down the excess, I was in the fortunate position of having some early tram material and early post war shots which added to the 1950/60s trolleybus era plus formation of the PTE coverage and onward on cine to the 1980s and then my own video plus the material from Tim and Glen Bubb and onward towards the millennium and almost annual coverage so we'll have to cut down a lot even allowing for a 2 hours programme, nobody can say they aren't getting value for money but with such a huge archive as we have we can undertake this type of mammoth project. It certainly gave me something to do today, I went out briefly and surveyed the truck scene which was minimal and the M6 was the usual gridlock even without the trucks. With a freezing cold howling wind chill factor to add to the mix I retreated home. I started the project this morning and I'm up to the 1980s at the moment with the list of masters being worked on as I go adding each clip so I don't get confused which is easily done these days.

The DVD orders are starting to build up again and hopefully when the stats come through for Youtube it will be an upwards curve once Christmas day is out of the system, even with the quiet festive period we shall still be looking at a record breaking month and I can only hope that the exponential growth in 2017 continues and I still look forward to resuming film work once the weather settles again. Orders are being turned round be return of post at present, I'm looking ahead to early February when I start our 2018 overseas coverage with Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore for both trucks and buses at all locations. The tickets and hotels are booked, just one internal flight KL to Singapore to sort. Singapore is easy to get around with a 3 day pass which allows all modes of travel. Well I'd better get back to the editing suite, I'll try and load clips as trailers to whet your appetites as I progress through the Newcastle upon Tyne material. I'll give you some Singapore as a look ahead its all changed now though which is of course why I'm going.