October 1997
Beginner
160 pages
4h 32m
English
Operating abroad has in many ways become much easier since the introduction of ENG. Previously, a fire brigader covering a story in another country was invariably dependent on the goodwill of the local television station for the processing of film and arrangements for its transmission by landline, microwave or satellite link as an alternative to freighting it home undeveloped and uncut. Delay and frustration were commonplace, especially at times of big stories, when it seemed that half of the world’s camera teams were simultaneously demanding facilities from a television station barely equipped to cope with its own programme commitments.
Nowadays the team assigned to a big foreign story will often include ...
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