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Desperately Seeking Susan

| Quentin Budworth

I use the sat Nav I know Hull well. I’ve worked in the city since 1996. I’ve never been to the Humber Social Club on New Bridge Road. I pull up outside. Jo, who played Lisa Minnelli from Cabaret, is  at the door waiting for me. She waves, I grab the camera bag and go in. Sharrelle Rigg, Shazza to her friends, is waiting here she is dressed in 1980’s clothing and drinking tea. Jo asks if I want a cuppa and I say yes, strong with milk, leave the tea bag in, I like it strong.

We talk about the shoots for the Hullywood Icons. Jo and Nancy and Shazza are all good friends they meet up a couple of nights a week to go for a meal or to the pub. Jo and Nancy are already Hullywood Icons.Today it is Shazza’s turn to have her Hullywood moment.

We go into the toilets in the snug. There is a hand dryer, we look at the shot on Jo’s mobile phone and I explain that we can flip it in post production so Shazza is facing the right way just like in the movie still.  I do a couple of test shots and then boom we have it. Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan.

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We drink our tea, chatting, the phone rings, it’s James Hoggarth from BBC Radio Humberside:

“Are you free to do an interview saturday morning 8:50? Talk about the projections at Beverley Minster and St Mary’s what your shooting Madonna ? Where? What does she think of the Humber Social Club?”

I look across at Shazza she smiles and I reply: “I’ll ask her.” I pause for effect “she says the tea is great and they have spotless loos”.

Captain America: The First Avenger

| Quentin Budworth

I get to the location. Mr Choos is being restored, the road ahead is deserted except for a lone dog walker, my phone rings. I’m behind you Moff says in a heavy Glaswegian accent, he flashes his headlights and I park next to him at St.Andrew’s Quay. He grabs his costume followed by his young daughter. We walk up to the old Lord Line building in Hull, this is shoot number 5 of a 12 shoot saturday.

Moff McEwan is a big friendly Scott who you wouldn’t mess with which is great news as there are a number of very dodgy individuals hanging around, Moff says don’t worry I’ve clocked them, I don’t, he’s  Hull’s Captain America.  Appearing at many charity events, you have to give something back to the community he says, I agree.

Lyla his daughter  hates shopping and helps him on with his costume, the zip up jacket is stiff, she fumbles but zips him in.

I take this picture.

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Today is monday…

| Quentin Budworth

Well a busy old day lots of meetings about The Hullywood Icons the big news is about the Beverley projections a radio appearance on Beverley FM and a fortuitous meeting with Helen Watson and the vicars from Beverley Minster and St Mary’s. Tea and Christmas cake with project lamp man Tim Wall and his wife Jo and a remarkably productive trip  to Hornsea more about that later…

Two simultaneous projections one in Beverley Minster and one in St Mary’s:

Beverley 6pm-8pm Saturday 14th January inside Beverley Minster  and St Mary’s free admission.

Here is Les Drake’s footage of the Hull projections on Humber Street:

Forest Gump

| Quentin Budworth

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It’s before 9am early on saturday morning we’re at the Hull park run in East Hull the largest park run in the country. It’s just getting light. I’m in here to meet The Martindale family who have arranged to do a Forest Gump shoot with me.

Paul Martindale is in costume, he’s very tall and has a newly acquired Caveman wig and beard from Amazon. Sarah Martindale is wrangling Paul’s beard and putting the final touches to his Forest Gump character.

I shout to the group of runners warming up – ‘who wants to be in the picture’. Everyone gets in position, there are some hi vis jackets, we get them to the back of the group.

Some final adjustments to Paul’s caveman wig which has a life of it’s own and is having a diva moment, I get the final thumbs up from a relieved Sarah, shout to the runners to get ready and take this picture.

 

 

Some Like it Hot

| Quentin Budworth

It’s 4-30pm on the last day of the Made in Hull Event in Hull the launch for Hull 2017 – UK City of Culture , I’m running late something to do with a mix up over cemeteries with Jack the Pumpkin King,  and slow moving traffic this is Hullywood and life is frantic. I’m meeting Marty Hogg and her friend Jenny Lazenby who are recreating a scene from one of my favourite films ‘Some Like it Hot’ . They are women playing men playing women. I arrive on the station platform looking around franticly. Where are they? I’ve got to shoot Titanic next then Darth Maul and then Catwoman. It’s a 12 shoot day and I’m tired. I spot Marty sitting on hers case we head up to the far platform the light has gone and the battery in the flash (which I hate using is dead).

We make the photo interrupted by the station manager (god love her) who says Mr Budworth I know what your doing, I love your work I’m a big fan but you need to ask permission’ I smile explaining that I’m sorry and rushing and will ask for permission next time. She says no flash photography – I’m with her on that- she smiles and says carry on. We hug, I kiss her on the cheek and we get the shot.

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Cabaret

| Quentin Budworth

Here we have 54 year old Jo Richards as Sally Bowles played by Liza Minnelli  depicting a moment from the Mein Herr scene in Cabaret. Thank you to Pete the new manager of Ryders Club.on Coltman Street Hull for helping this to happen and to Nancy and Sharrell for their help styling Jo’s outfit.

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Trainspotting

| Quentin Budworth

The door opens to a flat in a state of great disrepair near Pearson Park, I am greeted by a smiling Sarah Jayne Curry who says I’ve been playing with coffee, her arms are stained brown with it, we go upstairs and make this picture …

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Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy drama film directed by Danny Boyle, and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald in her acting debut. Based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1996.

The Academy Award nominated screenplay by John Hodge follows a group of heroin addicts in a late 1980s economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life. Beyond drug addiction, other themes in the film are exploration of the urban poverty and squalor in “culturally rich” Edinburgh.

The film has been ranked 10th by the British Film Institute (BFI) in its list of Top 100 British films of all time. In 2004 the film was voted the best Scottish film of all time in a general public poll.

With thanks to Barry Weldon for his digital edit on the final image.

 

 

See Peter Levy’s Hullywood ‘James Bond’ shoot broadcast on BBC Look North 05-01-2017

| Quentin Budworth

When Emma Palmer who handles the Hullywood Icons twitter account cheekily tweeted Peter Levy with a challeng to creat his Hullywood Icon nobody could have predicted what happened next. See a Hullywood Icon in the making in this wonderful clip from BBC Look North. May thanks to Peter, Simon Annali, Martha and the BBC team in Hull for making this piece. As a direct result of this broadcast the website received 10000 hits yesterday.