Yes, cameras can comment on the present. It would be much harder for them to
put in the past concisely. A film showing the plain, the road (but the old
road?) the horses, the farms and the Shrove Tuesday Football (great photo
stuff but very rough indeed, or it used to be - you might get your camera
thrown in the mud.) Then a quick pan up to the high tech world...
I think I'll stick to words...the radio play syndrome. Clip-clop, bang-bang,
tappety tap.
bw
SallyE
on 22/11/03 8:58 am, Helen Clare at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi
> Was reminded of this poem last night watching the news.
> Half a dozen protestors, the president in a bullet proof vest, a placard
> saying "Bush is not very nice" and marksmen on the roof of a tiny primary
> school.
> Sometimes I think I envy cameraman who seem to be able to say so much in so
> few visual images....
> Hmmm.
> Helen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:07 AM
> Subject: New: Sedgefield
>
>
>> Sedgefield
>>
>> "It's not every day the world's most powerful man comes to your village"
>> - shop assistant, Sedgefield.
>>
>> On the flat Durham plain,
>> a halt on the long road to Scotland,
>> littered by coalmines, deceased,
>> and the ancient small farms
>> handed down from son to only son -
>> a village with a racecourse
>> a lunatic assylum
>> and Easter greenness growing
>> violets, primrose, oak and brambles.
>> First, Shrove Tuesday's football scramble,
>> rough as the farm lads, tough
>> as winners - as those who held on
>> to poorer properties, till the age
>> of zip and jet, email,
>> motorway, horrible bomb.
>> Ask this question of Sedgefield -
>> Who is the most powerful man?
>>
>> Sally Evans
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