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What do you do if you're a producer who wants to make a tavel film, but have absolutely no money? You make it anyway. According to Doug Jones of L.A.'s Internaional Travel Films, one Austrian producer strapped a camera to the...

November 1, 1997

What do you do if you’re a producer who wants to make a tavel film, but have absolutely no money? You make it anyway. According to Doug Jones of L.A.’s Internaional Travel Films, one Austrian producer strapped a camera to the front of a train and let it roll. There was no voice-over, no music and no narration. The film went right to the local home-video market market – and made money.

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Barry Walsh is editor and content director for realscreen, and has served as editor of the publication since 2009. With a career in entertainment media that spans two decades, prior to realscreen, he held the associate editor post for now defunct sister publication Boards, which focused on the advertising and commercial production industries. Before Boards, he served as editor of Canadian Music Network, a weekly music industry trade, and as music editor for HMV.com. As content director, he also oversees the development of content for the brand's market-leading events, the Realscreen Summit and Realscreen West, as well as new content initiatives.

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