Mr. Ocean Liner
I was warned by friends that once I started a blog I'd post a few times then get too busy to keep it up on a regular basis. I thought, "No, I can do this...". Well, clearly it's been a while since I've posted anything. Life keeps all of us running around and it's hard to find time to sit down and actually write about it. Too busy living and doing to stop and keep up a journal, let alone to regularly keep up my "status" on Facebook. I don't know how people do it. I know I should just set aside a time each day to make an entry, but easier said than done!
A new adventure is underway that I'll try and share as I can. In a nutshell, the one and only Bill Miller, otherwise officially known as Maritime Historian and Author William H. Miller, Jr.
(www.BillMillerAtSea.com) or more aptly as "Mr. Ocean Liner", has asked me if I would produce a documentary of his life. He had seen my DVD "Three Queens An International Rendezvous" and liked the personal feel, rather than a large Busby Berkeley production. With new HD video equipment, professional editing with Final Cut Pro and a fantastic replication company that does DVD/Box design & shrink wrap, it's now possible on a small independent scale to produce a first class product.
Over the next several months I will be following Bill around with a camera, taping interviews and lectures, special events, Bill's friends and family old and new, as well as scanning 100's of fabulous photographs and models. We started last week in Manhattan at the Southstreet Seaport Museum and will be embarking shortly on a transatlantic adventure sailing both the Queen Mary 2 and the Queen Victoria. Like the rehearsal process in theatre, it is the creative process of exploring possibilities and putting it all together and that I find the most exciting. It's a blank canvas and anything can happen! More to follow....
posted by Robert Neal Marshall @ 11:48 AM
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Like boarding a ship and beginning a grand voyage, the "adventure" of making a documentary about "Mr Ocean Liner" is very exciting. Both happily and thankfully, Bob Marshall is brilliant and the ideal captain of this journey. To date, we have logged in some 20 hrs of interviews/footage and with more to come.
I have so enjoyed loving the liners --- and both speaking & writing about them. It all started with a fleet of toy boats on my Grandmother's kitchen table ... my own little harbor! And, of course, growing up in Hoboken, back in the 1950s, with a front-row seat onto the Hudson River --- the magnificent New York City skyline as a backdrop, the freighters & ferries & little tugs as the supporting cast and then those great ocean liners as the leading ladies. A love affair began ... a passion was ignited ... and it has been a totally joyous "voyage" for me ever since.
This project will hopefully tell that story, ignite memories, foster modern day liner travel and maybe ignite passion in others. So, the whistles are sounding --- the long voyage of Mr Ocean Liner, from boyhood to the present, has begun! Already, I have my seat in a nice deckchair along the Boat Deck!
Bill Miller
Sep 30th 2009
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