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Updates from Maritime Film UK’s Rob White, TV producer, reporter and camera operator with 30 years’ experience at the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN

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There’s now an ‘Interpretation Manager’ for the Victory project. Under this imposing title, the marketing department of the National Museum of the Royal Navy will pull together all the outreach for the ship’s restoration. That’s being called ‘Victory Live – The Big Repair’ – with visitors able to watch that repair, well, live – key to the Museum’s plan. Clever, because it’s going to take quite a while. The new ‘Interpretation’ structure inevitably begged the question of what Maritime Films UK’s role would be – we had been chronicling the progress of the project over nigh on a decade, to the Museum’s warm approval, and it wasn’t clear where we stood. That question became much more pressing for MFUK with the first films delivered in that role – mostly identical what we’d already done. I enquired. And then it all became all too clear…

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