Fred Robinson - Snap, Crackle Pop! DVD
Sometimes in this wonderful magical world that we inhabit some unexpected things can happen. I was sitting munching my cornflakes and drinking my sixth cup of coffee one morning and through my letterbox slid a small packet. Inside was a canister containing an 8mm sound movie. There was a note inside the package from Ake Hallberg in Sweden. It said something to the effect that the package contained a sound movie of Fred Robinson taken some 20 or more years ago in London’s Hyde Park. I couldn’t believe what was happening. Here was an actual film of Fred Robinson together with an invitation for me to use it in any way I chose. That is magic. I sent the film off immediately to a local sound and film lab so that it could be converted to DVD. Back came the results a week later. The film had been converted but the quality was terrible. The colour was off and worse still the lab couldn’t copy the sound track on their machine. I was heartbroken and found another lab to see if the j