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

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