MAKING A CAREERS FILM

When two years ago the Central Electricity Authority decided to make a careers film, probably few of those who took the decision realised what a complicated train of events had been set in motion. To most people a ‘film’ means a 90‐minute entertainment feature on an evening out, while to the enthusiastic amateur photographer it may mean only a jerky 20‐second shot of his youngest child staggering across the garden lawn. An industrial documentary such as the one the CEA proposed to make is very far removed from both these productions, not least because, according to the experts, it is considerably more difficult to produce than either and takes very much longer to reach the screen.