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    Smalls Festival

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    A festival showcasing short films for mobile phones and MP3 players is set to launch next month. Branding agency Devilfish is launching The Smalls in conjunction with the London Design Festival and online magazine

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    DGP hires TMR trio

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    DVD and post facility DGP has recruited a trio of staff from TMR. Claire Leach, formerly a producer at TMR DVD, has joined the production department. Leach will manage the audio and subtitling for DGP's ongoing work for HBO DVD.

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    Cohen moves

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    Soho post house The Facility has taken on BBC Resources indie post producer Rich Cohen to head its new business department. During Cohen's five years at the BBC, he oversaw the migration of Red Bee Media post-production facilities to the Broadcast Centre. More recently as an indie post producer, Cohen ...

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    Editworks buys kit

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    Post facility Editworks has invested£100,000 in an Avid Unity Isis storage system. The kit, which has an 8Tb storage capacity, will link up to Editworks' nine Adrenalines, two Symphonies, DS Nitris and Pyramix audio systems, forming the central storage for the facility.

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    BBC radio reporters file by mobile

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    BBC radio reporters will be able to send broadcast-quality content from a mobile phone-style device, following trials in Lincolnshire.

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    Baraka opens offline editing facility Chop

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    Baraka Post Production has ploughed around£250,000 into a new dedicated offline editing division, Chop.

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    Frontier posts Big Bangs in HD

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    Frontier Post has done the HD post for Granite Productions' Mark Williams' Big Bangs. The 4 x 60-minute factual entertainment series explores the history of explosions from Chinese firecrackers to the A-bomb. Shot on HDCam, the series includes shots of explosions captured to a disk ...

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    Fracture gets Asbo Fever

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    Fracture has created the titles and bumpers for Folio Productions' Asbo Fever, a 3 x 60-minute series about people who receive Asbos. The brief was to make a light-hearted sequence featuring some of the people in the programmes. Fracture online editor Danny Davis created the ...

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    St Anne's makes Perfect Disaster

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    St Anne's Post has provided the post for Impossible Pictures' Perfect Disaster. The 6 x 60-minute docu-drama for Discovery US and Five looks at scenarios in a selection of cities, focusing on the different type of storm that hits each one. Editor Jon Ellis did ...

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    Pinewood sees£5m of kit go up in 007 fire

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    More than£5m worth of rigging kit is thought to have been lost in the fire which engulfed the James Bond set at Pinewood Studios on Sunday. Although three crew members were understood to be in the process of dismantling the set - which included an underwater tank - when the ...

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    What's a VoD show worth?

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    How much will a downloaded episode of Green Wingor The F Wordbe worth to consumers? Less than the cost of a music video on iTunes, according to Channel 4.

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    Preparing Pacific Quay for launch

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    BBC Scotland's Pacific Quay HQ in Glasgow

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    Sony offers new releases to UK VoD customers

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    Sony Pictures Television International has become the latest major producer to enter the burgeoning UK video-on-demand market.

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    The Mill searches for new investors

    2006-08-02T11:50:00Z

    Soho post production company The Mill has confirmed it is looking for new investors with a possibility of floating on the stock exchange.

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    ID plans new media push

    2006-07-31T16:00:00Z

    ID Distribution is forecasting turnover to hit£10m for the current financial year and is gearing up for a push into new media as it prepares to celebrate its second anniversary at Mipcom.

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    Australian mobile deal for The Office and Little Britain

    2006-07-31T16:00:00Z

    BBC Worldwide has struck a deal with Vodafone to offer downloadable clips from such series as The Office, Little Britainand Doctor Whoto mobile phone users in New Zealand and Australia.

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    James Bond set ruined in Pinewood Studios fire

    2006-07-31T09:50:00Z

    The James Bond set at Pinewood Studios has been destroyed in a fire that broke out yesterday morning, the third to hit the studios in 22 years.

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    Post production firms hit by Soho power cut

    2006-07-28T14:40:00Z

    Soho post production houses have been bracing themselves for further disruption this afternoon following yesterday's power cuts in the area.

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    Uncle posts Norton talent quest

    2006-07-27T08:30:00Z

    Uncle is doing the post for BBC events' How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?. Graham Norton presents the new entertainment show following Andrew Lloyd Webber's quest to find a new leading lady for The Sound of Music, with ...

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    Mills to On Sight

    2006-07-27T08:30:00Z

    HD dubbing and hire facility On Sight has recruited Richard Mills to join as chief engineer. Mills, who has 25 years' industry experience, was previously at Visions for 12 years as chief engineer and director of operations. He spent the past six years as manager of Molinare Studios and Transmission, ...