Obsessed with cinema from an early age, Ian Mackenzie Rough, aged 72, now lives a quiet life in rural France with 2 home cinemas in barns and hundreds of old film reels and a large collection of antique projectors. In 1958 his father returned from a trip to the USA with a Kodak 8 mm camera. As soon as he got his hands on this camera at the age of 9, he was instantly obsessed. He filmed everything, everywhere, including footage of a day at school. This film still exists! He also had a home cinema where he showed films to a ticketed audience as well as making his short films starring family and friends. After politely and relentlessly pestering the local cinema in Essex, England, he finally got a part time job at 13, working after school and weekends in the projection room. At age 15, he was invited by his Headmaster and local Councillor to film the upcoming Parliamentary Election of 1964; the election vote count was held at his school. After leaving school at 16, he started out at Associated British-Pathe as a ‘Runner’ in the film despatch department in London. Soon promoted to Projectionist, he worked for Warner Pathe; Associated British Picture Corporation; London Press Exchange advertising and Lintas Advertising as Projectionist / Video tape / telecine operator. In 1970, Barry Day, Creative Director of McCann-Erickson Advertising, invited him to set up and run their first Video studio. After 9 years at McCanns, he formed his own production company, Tele-An Productions, which traded for 29 years servicing top advertising agencies and corporate clients. He teamed up again with McCanns in 2000 and formed another company, Roughcuts, which was the agency’s in-house production facility. He retired to South West France in 2005, but continue transferring old film and editing as a hobby.