The Cine Technician (1953-1956)

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December, 1953 THE CINETECHNICIAN 169 Cine Profile by ' Recorder* TED BARNES, Jnr., is a rank-and-file member, ■* working as 16mm. printer at Kay Labs, Finsbury Park, and he comes into our spotlight through bringing great credit to ACT by winning the Men's Two Miles Walk Championship, organised by the British Workers' Sports Association. It was at the BWSA's first White City National Athletic Championships on 15th August, that 24-year-old Ted won the championship with a time of 14 minutes 55 seconds. Two days before his fourteenth birthday Ted won the Highgate Harriers Junior Walking Championship, beating all the men who were also entered in the same race as " novices." His many other laurels for race walking have included the Middlesex County Junior, the Southern Counties Junior and the All-England Air Training Corps Championships, as well as being prominent in all team races with the Highgate Harriers. The secret of these successes is that there are two Ted Barneses — father and son, who form a great partnership. Dad acts as young Ted's trainer and " manager," for he is assistant secretary and coach to the Highgate Harriers Walking Section and committee member of the Film Industry Sports Association. Ted, Snr., too, has a long string of race walking accomplishments, outstanding of which was winning the Open Handicaps from one mile up to 38 miles, and the Highgate Harriers longdistance championship London to Brighton four times, 1935-38. Ted, Jnr., entered Kay's, Finsbury Park, at 15, joining ACT straight away; except for national service with the Middlesex Regiment, he has stayed at Finsbury Park the whole while, and has been a printer on both 35mm. and 16mm. He is married and his young daughter, Jacqueline, is nearly two. Ted, Snr., joined his son at Kay's in 1949, having previously been with Carter Patterson, when he was in the Transport and General Workers' Union. Naturally enough, both the Barneses have helped the popular Kay's Sports Meetings at Parliament Hill. They pay great credit, though, to the management's interest in sport, especially that of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Roy. This year Ted won the cup, presented by Mrs. Roy, competed for by members of the Highgate Harriers. Of the ACT members at Kay's Arthur Beasley, James Talbot, " Rusty " Coppleman, Alfred Clampitt and George King have been particularly helpful in organising sports; but Ted Snr., who is the firm's sports secretary, says he has only to ask there to do a small job and they respond at once. Young Ted expects to be in a number of roadwalking events with Highgate Harriers this winter — as much as family life and turns of night work at the labs will allow. Both father and son are looking for fresh fields to conquer. "It's a very strenuous sport," says the father, "but once you're really interested, it develops a very fine spirit among all classes, and you really enjoy it." So he's hoping the F.I.S.A. will soon be able to cater for race walking, and an enormous fillip to sportsmen in the film industry would be for them to engage the French film workers one year. "After all, the railwaymen arrange sports meetings with other countries, and the B.W.S.A. might be able to help fix it up." That's the go-ahead spirit behind our walking Barneses. May the partnership prosper long. GEORGE ELVIN WRITES— continued There will be many problems to be tackled. The effect of CinemaScope, Cinerama and other new processes or variations of old ones on British film production; the impact of commercial television, both from the American market and if it comes aver here, the electronic processes, and our old friends magnetic sound and so on. On the industrial side we shall see a continuation and, we hope, a successful conclusion of our campaign for improved agreements, particularly increased rates of pay. A.C.T. itself will have its own special day of joy when on 14th May we celebrate at the Royal Festival Hall our 21st birthday. It will most certainly be a full year. Let us hope it will be a fruitful one. It can be if A.C.T. proceeds with its usual unity and determination. A Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year to you all.