The 1976-1979 class at Escola Náutica Inf. D. Henrique (silent video)


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This video shows the 1976-1979 class of Merchant Navy Radio Officer, at Escola Náutica Inf. D. Henrique (ENIDH), a nautical school where I studied from 1977 to 1980.
For the small history, in 1979 I was 19 years old and did my first production and direction work for TV: an advertising film, 40 seconds long, done on 16 mm color reverse film, to advertise Escola Náutica in the Portuguese TV stations. This was also the first advertising TV film ever made for ENIDH.
Filmed with a Beaulieu camera and Angenieux zoom optics, courtesy of my friend Nuno Monteiro Pereira, editing and sound had the TV station support. I did the voice over, also my first time as a professional.
Pre-production started mid July, test shooting in the 1st week of August, and the shooting took place on a single day using 60 people I hired for free and a lunch meal, using two newspaper ads, since in August the school was empty: all students where on vacations! The students and teachers in the TV ad are phony!