that is great mate i am glad to have spotlit this for you and i’m glad you got the goods – i hope you enjoy the film ! 🙂
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These were assembled by Hoover Ltd in Merthyr Tydfil, using Hoover’s washine machine electirc motor.
My father and brother worked in the bigger Hoover factory in Cambuslang near Glasgow, and they had a few demonstrators in the H-U-G-E canteen area (the factory employed several thousand, so the canteen area was huge).
Anyway, the engineers up here took the restrictor off the motor and fitted more powerful batteries, and made the C5 acceleration and speed absolutely mental, leaving rubber and skid marks all over the canteen floor, although my dad did say the charge didnt last lomng at all.
After watching the trailer i don’t think i have to watch the full documentary. The looks on those peoples faces and words that where coming out of their faces explained the C5 and Clive obsession with it to a T.
You can tell Clive is dead, all the vultures have appeared to try to get some cash out of his legacy. The Caulfields put out some limited edition Sinclair collectors pack full of plastic tatt and then were discounting it when people obviously saw it as worthless future landfill.
in fairness mate this is actually being made by friends of clive, and only at a push. making a documentary about the C5 isn’t exactly going to set the bank account into overdrive :p
I’ve got a new system for determining the quality of a campaign, if it appears on the Retro Hour (aka The “What’s the story there” hour) then it’s probably a load of rubbish. Do people actually make proper documentaries any more? I’ve watched quite a few recently which are just a load of interviews of people chopped up and spliced together. It’s almost like they haven’t yet found a word to describe this format yet so call it a documentary.
yes mate i do not rate the whole “talking heads” ones, there are ones about horror and sci-fi i forget who makes them but it’s literally about 2 minutes per film and all the segment is is one or two people talking about when they saw it or what they remember. terrible documentaries in fact they are called “in search of darkness” or at least that is the horror spur of it, just a complete waste of time.
I’ve watched all three and the only people I really cared about hearing from were John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon (RIP) and a few of the actors. When it was a film maker you at least got some background information. Although when Carpenter was talking about Christine he seemed upbeat, in the past it was said he did it to restore his reputation and for the money after The Thing flopped at the box office.
Why such a low goal, looking for “free” advertising is he. Also why ScamGoGo and not KS, if its 90% filmed then KS would make more scene. IS this going to be another one of these documentaries that takes 5+ years to come to the backers only after doing the festival circuit
i certainly hope not mate the last thing like that i funded was the ghostbusters documentary “cleanin’ up the town” and not only was that in cinemas before backers got it, it was in amazon etc before backers got it ! in the end i kicked up such a fuss that they basically told me to piss off and gave me my money back 😮
Just got my Blu ray and T-shirt i backed. Thank you George for highlighting this doc as i would not have know about it and plus i backed it.
that is great mate i am glad to have spotlit this for you and i’m glad you got the goods – i hope you enjoy the film ! 🙂
These were assembled by Hoover Ltd in Merthyr Tydfil, using Hoover’s washine machine electirc motor.
My father and brother worked in the bigger Hoover factory in Cambuslang near Glasgow, and they had a few demonstrators in the H-U-G-E canteen area (the factory employed several thousand, so the canteen area was huge).
Anyway, the engineers up here took the restrictor off the motor and fitted more powerful batteries, and made the C5 acceleration and speed absolutely mental, leaving rubber and skid marks all over the canteen floor, although my dad did say the charge didnt last lomng at all.
sounds brill mate i would have loved to have seen that !
i always wondered if it would be possible to do a wheelie in a c5 and this might have answered that question !
Something smells about this. I think it’s the combination of a suspiciously low target and the use of Indiegogo’s flexible funding option.
After watching the trailer i don’t think i have to watch the full documentary. The looks on those peoples faces and words that where coming out of their faces explained the C5 and Clive obsession with it to a T.
You can tell Clive is dead, all the vultures have appeared to try to get some cash out of his legacy. The Caulfields put out some limited edition Sinclair collectors pack full of plastic tatt and then were discounting it when people obviously saw it as worthless future landfill.
in fairness mate this is actually being made by friends of clive, and only at a push. making a documentary about the C5 isn’t exactly going to set the bank account into overdrive :p
Well, I wasn’t commenting on this particular project. But stuff like this: https://www.graciousfilms.com/products/official-sinclair-authenticated-zx-spectrum-40th-anniversary-collectors-box
yes bert that can fuck right off. absolute chancers with “support” from nostalgia nerd. about a tenners worth of chinese tat.
I’ve got a new system for determining the quality of a campaign, if it appears on the Retro Hour (aka The “What’s the story there” hour) then it’s probably a load of rubbish. Do people actually make proper documentaries any more? I’ve watched quite a few recently which are just a load of interviews of people chopped up and spliced together. It’s almost like they haven’t yet found a word to describe this format yet so call it a documentary.
yes mate i do not rate the whole “talking heads” ones, there are ones about horror and sci-fi i forget who makes them but it’s literally about 2 minutes per film and all the segment is is one or two people talking about when they saw it or what they remember. terrible documentaries in fact they are called “in search of darkness” or at least that is the horror spur of it, just a complete waste of time.
I’ve watched all three and the only people I really cared about hearing from were John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon (RIP) and a few of the actors. When it was a film maker you at least got some background information. Although when Carpenter was talking about Christine he seemed upbeat, in the past it was said he did it to restore his reputation and for the money after The Thing flopped at the box office.
Why such a low goal, looking for “free” advertising is he. Also why ScamGoGo and not KS, if its 90% filmed then KS would make more scene. IS this going to be another one of these documentaries that takes 5+ years to come to the backers only after doing the festival circuit
i certainly hope not mate the last thing like that i funded was the ghostbusters documentary “cleanin’ up the town” and not only was that in cinemas before backers got it, it was in amazon etc before backers got it ! in the end i kicked up such a fuss that they basically told me to piss off and gave me my money back 😮