Ian Breakwell's Continuous Diary (1984)
By Ian Breakwell
Produced by Anna Ridley. An Annalogue Production for Channel 4 Television. Copyright 1984. Courtesy of Anna Ridley and Felicity Sparrow Ian Breakwell’s Continuous Diary is a series of 21 episodes commissioned as part of the Dadarama series for the launch of Channel 4. Presented here is a selection of episodes made by the late Ian Breakwell. The producer and commissioner Anna Ridley writes: Ian had decided that he wanted to develop his “Continuous Diary” for television. Annalogue, my production company, received an initial budget to produce several episodes as a pilot. Despite C4’s free-wheeling philosophy, I guess the idea was “risky’ especially as the Channel had yet to launched. The pilot received a very favourable response and full production commenced […]. Ian’s “Continuous Diary” episodes were of varying running times, the shortest being 2’46” and the longest 12’39”, with a total duration of 2 hours and 17 minutes. Some draw on Ian’s existing Diaries and adapted; others were made especially. “13th May 1984”, for example, is about the London Marathon and was shot on that day whilst the marathon was taking place and transmitted the following day. Ian decided on a transmission…
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