Feed the
Camera
For half a century, one British company fed the film crews on location. Nobody has written down what that took.
The story
Every film you have ever watched was made by people who had to eat. On a location unit that is not a detail — it is a logistical operation that moves with the shoot, sets up in a field or a desert or a car park before first light, and feeds several hundred people to a schedule that costs thousands of pounds a minute when it slips.
This is the first history of that trade, told from the dining bus rather than the director's chair. Read the story.
On this site
- 01 The story → Half a century on the dining bus — and a timeline that only holds what the record does.
- 02 The films → 265 productions, with the year each was shot and the country that made it.
- 03 Book & documentary → Two projects in development, sharing one body of research.
- 04 Contributors → The people who were there — named only once they have agreed.
- 05 If you were there → Memories, photographs and paperwork. However little.
Keep up with it
One letter a month, when there is something worth sending.
What the research turns up: a document that changes the story, a photograph nobody had, a recipe worth cooking. No schedule for its own sake — if there is nothing, nothing gets sent.