10 successful years with The National Museum of the Royal Navy – 17 films on time and budget, 8 on HMS ‘Victory’. Winning the Museum’s acclaim: “You have excelled yourselves”, “a joy to work with”, “indispensable”.

Well… not that indispensable … the museum said procurement rules meant ‘Victory’ filming must go out to tender. We studied them – not so! None of our films, commissioned and invoiced one by one every time, got anywhere near the cost ceiling where those rules apply. The tender also split filming and editing – not us, that – and forbade mentioning previous work for NMRN. Blocking us, main ‘Victory’ film makers for nearly a decade, from citing our USP.

As Dylan said, “You don’t have to be a weatherman to see which way the wind blows.” So… goodbye, ‘Victory’. Sad. Heart-breaking, in fact. But unavoidable.