[cma-l] Guardian Letter: John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins continued to promote the idea of community media

[LOL GELLOR]

Yes Peter - sad to hear this news - he was a passionate advocate to much of what has , and continues to emerge, in the world of community media. Albeit we now find ourselves in an environment of social media etc. I still remember fondly doing a "three machine tape editing" editing course at Fantasy Factory. At which I had the opportunity to engage with a pleasantly quirky individual, very much a fore runner to our current sector, who was actively engaged in empowering aspirants like me to grasp the wherewithal of the means of production. Times may change but there will always be a need for the Hoppys of this world.
Condolences to those close.
LolG
 


     On Friday, 27 March 2015, 13:40, CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk> wrote:
   

 John “Hoppy” Hopkins made an important contribution to community video in Britain. After pioneering work in Notting Hill, west London, he drew on Canadian experience in a report for the Home Office, Video in Community Development (1972). Keen to learn more of the possibilities, I took a tutorial with Hoppy at the New Arts Lab and wrote an article for New Society about the opportunity that small-scale video presented to the experimental cable licences then on offer from the Heath government. Certainly Bristol Channel, Swindon Viewpoint and Channel 40 in Milton Keynes were influenced by Hoppy’s ideas.He continued to promote the idea of community media when, after most of the cable stations closed, Comcom (the Community Communications Group, the forerunner of the present day Community Media Association) was formed. His publication JCATS, the Journal of the Centre for Advanced TV Studies, produced from the Fantasy Factory base in central London, carried articles on the topic from around the world.By Peter Lewis, London Metropolitan University
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/26/letter-john-hoppy-hopkins-obituary
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