Many years ago in England, probably the late 60' or early 70's, the Harwell club showed the 'Ten Best' and one of the films was called 'Inside 4 minutes'. Basically it showed components of a clock in an exploded view. It always fascinated me and I have never seen it again. I looked through the IAC catalogues but could not find any reference to it and an internet search never turned anything up either.

Does anyone know anything about this short film?

John

John sorry I cant help you there. I remember the Ten Best films though of Moviemaker Magazine.
I was an acquaintance of Ron Miller here in Aberdeen and knew some of the members of Group Five.
He was known for the productions of VORTEX , OILS FOR NEPTUNE , DONALD OF THE COLOURS and
MOVIEMAN which was the story of Jimmy Nairn a famous old Cinema Manager Showman here in Scotland.
Perry's Movies released a Super 8mm print of this many years ago. I still have my copy.
I was also the Projectionist for some of Ron's 16mm shows. He used an ELF machine.

Hi John & David, I used to have "Movie Maker" magazine through the '70s, but had to leave them when I left home. I have bought some
from the late 60's which I'll check, I tried to find information on a little film I'd love to have seen "To Sunset & Beyond", I contacted the
IAC, and was told , no chance, these films are now archived and that's it. It would be nice if the IAC could release these "Ten Best" films
from the past years, I would imagine it would be a minefield of rights and payments etc. A damn shame.

Why do they have to be so awkward? What is the point of having an archive if you won't let anyone use it! Maybe they think that the film will get damaged so transfer it to DVD or whatever.
Somehow I don't think there would be a problem with rights, I have no doubt that when entering the Ten Best competition there was a small clause stating that the IAC could use the films for any purpose.

That happens all the time here, the tourist authority in the south of WA ran a competition to promote the area and there were prizes for the winners, however they also decided to use the non winning entries
in their promotional material without seeking permission or even crediting the photographer. Needless to say that was not mentioned in the competition rules

One of the camera clubs I belonged to here for a short time, had a digital monthly competition where we had to enter images online. Later I and a friend discovered on the club website that all the images (not just the winners) entered during the year were published in Hi res on the club website with no restriction on downloading. What was even worse was that all the images were offered for sale as prints with sizes ranging from 6x4 to 40x30, by this time we were no longer members of the club, but they were still using our images.

Needless to say I wrote a suitable letter to the club president and copied it to the President of the Australian Photographic Society. The Camera Club did not appreciate this and said I should not have informed the APS (equivalent of the RPS in the UK).
They also were unwilling to say what images if any had been sold.

John
Australia, a country founded on crime and one that still condones it