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    FILM STARS Photography by the yard

    May 25, 2021 4 minutes

    It’s 1957. I’m 12 years old and in my first year at grammar school. Today a photographer is coming to take a picture of everyone in the school. Not one at a time, but everyone – about 700 boys and some 30-odd (several very odd) teachers – all in one, long panoramic picture. Glancing out of the window during double maths, I can see preparations under way in the playground.

    The photographer and his assistant are holding a long rope with a huge weight on one end and a big chunk of chalk on the other. The photographer chalks a cross on the playground. He places the weighted end of the rope on the centre of the cross, his assistant stands on

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