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With the slow turgid demise of the DVD and the control freakery of the streamers we have embarked on “the third way”….

Welcome to Pay On Demand!

nunkie_logo_horizontal_white_small-copyWe have filmed, edited and uploaded a clients film,
the classic MR James “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” and set it up to premiere on all hallows night.

Vimeo has always been good to us and seems very civilised, (whereas we have had “difficulties” with ‘You Tube’).

The question is “will people pay?”, can we distract them from Facebook updates, netflix and a thousand distractions to sitting down, on a dark cold night and concentrating on the simplest form of story telling? We have a fantastic product with Whistle, and a ready made audience of keen followers of Nunkie. More excitingly we can now present this to the  world. If this works then it could be a taste of things to come, Television is Dead, Long live television!

Over to the creative director of Nunkie, Robert Lloyd Parry;

On October 31st we are releasing online a much requested item: a screen version of ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad.’ This is a straightforward, no frills rendition of a performance of M R James’s great tale of nocturnal terror. It was filmed on location in Hemingford Grey Manor in Cambridgeshire, in a single take, by the light of single candle. From noon on Hallowe’en it will be yours to download 
We are hoping that on Hallowe’en night M R James fans all over the planet will settle down with a bowl of soup and a glass of whisky, and indulge in one of the most sublimely pleasing terrors of them all. 

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email just in…. Straight8 2016 has just opened! ThomThom are going to drop everything (accept the paid work!) and dig out the sacred book of “film pitches”, with a deadline of the 4 April, the turn around for a top notch award winning film is tight. This takes us right back to the beginning, raw film making on classic celluloid. Straight8 sends a sealed roll of film (in the classic super8 cartage) we film a complete short and without ever seeing or editing the film we send it back to soho for them to process it. In the classic era of straight8 nobody saw the film until the opening night, so we would watch our film on the edge of our seats in front of a live cinema audience…enjoying the excitement of seeing if we were able to create a celluloid masterpiece or if we had travelled all that way to see that we had forgotten to take our lens cap off…

We spotted that Kodak has just launched a brand new super8 camera, riding on the wave of analogue revival, and here at thomthom we are happy to be a part of it. If we are feeling brave we might even upload our back catalogue of super8 shorts.

please keep 6th May 2016 free for the cannes film festival premier!

see you on the beach in the Kodak Pavilion,

(now all we need to do is write, storyboard, produce, cast, direct, film and score the best film we can possibly make!)

sign up for the straight8 competition here

details of the new Kodak super8 Camera here

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