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By Mike Martin - 23/02/2009 20:48:18
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Here is a link to a very interesting production about Freemasonry in Kent by the Freemasons of Kent: http://www.kenttv.com/programmes.php?PID=304&Title=Freemasons%3E+of+Kent What is the Panel's opinion.
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By Tom Cherup - 24/02/2009 02:18:50
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Mike, I enjoyed it thought it to be informative. Good quality I did expand it to full screen and found no pixulation. I going to forward it to the two forums here both on Yahoo that being my lodge's forum and Mich-Masons. I liked what I saw of the lodge room, very good looking.
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By wayne cowley - 24/02/2009 08:33:54
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I watched this at home last night An excellent piece - well done to all concerned Wayne
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By Roy V - 25/02/2009 10:49:03
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I am also pleased to come across this excellent public insight into FM. There is one point I would make: Bro Boxer kept the "trouser leg bit" under wraps when asked, making it sound like "one of our secrets" Perhaps he could have given a brief, vague mention of its significance, thus improving the notions many of the public think of as a "silly procedure". The Preparation was explained on TV many years ago, but I have often come across people who think we all spend the whole evening with a bare leg. Just a little thing that could be further explained. Full marks though for the other 99% !
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By mopsey - 25/02/2009 18:54:11
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I live 15 miles from that building. The museum is 2nd only to that at Gt. Queens St, i'm told.
Very informative.
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By allybeggs - 25/02/2009 21:03:23
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I was thinking that at some point I would take a trip to that very museum. Nice bit of reporting! Ally
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By Tom Cherup - 26/02/2009 01:14:19
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Great looking lodge room. Is the lodge room still in use or is just on disoplay for the public?
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By Soren - 26/02/2009 08:22:19
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Roy V (25/02/2009)
I am also pleased to come across this excellent public insight into FM. There is one point I would make: Bro Boxer kept the "trouser leg bit" under wraps when asked, making it sound like "one of our secrets" Perhaps he could have given a brief, vague mention of its significance, thus improving the notions many of the public think of as a "silly procedure". The Preparation was explained on TV many years ago, but I have often come across people who think we all spend the whole evening with a bare leg. Just a little thing that could be further explained. Full marks though for the other 99% ! I fully agree that is a very positive piece of journalism to be welcome. But I also concur with Bro Roy V that some issues could have been better explained: the Preparation was one, the Nazi persecution of FM another. Obviously none of that is Bro Boxer's fault, he couldn't have anticipated all the questions that would be put to him. In any case, an excellent contribution! Soren
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By Tom Cherup - 26/02/2009 17:14:45
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Soren (26/02/2009)
Roy V (25/02/2009)
I am also pleased to come across this excellent public insight into FM. There is one point I would make: Bro Boxer kept the "trouser leg bit" under wraps when asked, making it sound like "one of our secrets" Perhaps he could have given a brief, vague mention of its significance, thus improving the notions many of the public think of as a "silly procedure". The Preparation was explained on TV many years ago, but I have often come across people who think we all spend the whole evening with a bare leg. Just a little thing that could be further explained. Full marks though for the other 99% ! I fully agree that is a very positive piece of journalism to be welcome. But I also concur with Bro Roy V that some issues could have been better explained: the Preparation was one, the Nazi persecution of FM another. Obviously none of that is Bro Boxer's fault, he couldn't have anticipated all the questions that would be put to him. In any case, an excellent contribution! Soren I would have think that he fully explained for each. As in most cases they (the TV studio) used most of the day shooting on location. What the TV studio did was to crop/edit what they needed to fit the time slot. The person doing the cropping/editing was not a mason.
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By Roy V - 26/02/2009 23:25:37
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Good point, Tom. The film wasn't made by the Kent Masons, and I was shooting the messenger without realising that a remaining hint of secrecy may have been an intentional "selling point".
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By Soren - 27/02/2009 10:07:55
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Tom, Mike asked for opinions and that is what I gave. The important thing, IMHO, is that this is a positive piece of journalism, and a very welcome one. Now, about cropping or editing I beg to differ from you. I have worked on TV, and more specifically in editing rooms, and the comments Bro Boxer made about Preparation and about Hitler's persecution of FM were uninterrupted and unedited. All I was trying to do was to point to the need to prepare well Brethren who will take part in media interviews. But, none of that detracts from the fact that it is a very positive interview and all credit to our Kent Brethren for that. S&f, Soren
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