Noel & Roy Spence: The Filmmaking Twins Born in 1944

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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