Published: April 24, 2023, 4 a.m.
Roy and Noel Spence are twin brothers born in 1944 who’ve dedicated their lives to making films.
In today’s episode we talk about:
- Their first trip to the cinema in 1952
- Roy’s theory that cave-men were film-makers
- Experience of using old-school tech to make movies
- Hilarious moments of when things went wrong on shoot
- The dangers of an “instant-society”
- How to do special effects with “no budget”
- Their experience running private cinemas like Tudor and Excelsior
- History of some of the 65 cinema’s in Belfast
- And advice they would give to aspiring film-makers
Check it out.
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