GLP Shines Twice on Back-to-Back Primetime German TV Shows
LD Thomas Gerdon lights new Verstehen Sie Spaß production and the Beatrice Egli Show with impression X5, HIGHLANDER, GT-1, X4 Bar, X4, X4 L, JDC1, and Fusion FS16 Z
At the beginning of April, the classic German TV series Verstehen Sie Spaß (which translates as Do You Understand Fun?) entered a new season, with the moderator duties transferring from the long-serving Guido Cantz to Barbara Schöneberger, and the entire production moving from its familiar Munich location to the Berlin studio.Read More »GLP Shines Twice on Back-to-Back Primetime German TV Shows
During a game of racket ball in the 1830s, a group of London schoolboys noticed that a punctured ball, which “squashed” on impact with the wall, offered more variety and more intensity of play than its intact counterpart. Thus, to the delight of millions of fans ever since, the games of Squash was born.
Happily, as has so often been the case in society, inclusiveness and understanding seem to grow stronger with the passage of time. Such evolution can be seen in the story of British Sign Language (BSL). Arising in the 18th century, this language of handshape, orientation, movement, and non-manual features, (facial expressions) was frowned upon for centuries by an educational establishment that refused to teach it in school, believing that the deaf should learn to read lips instead.
