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Update time – mid April and we’ve started to view and abstract stills from some 20 videos of past shows. This is exceptionally time consuming (the video has to be viewed in real time and, when a suitable frame appears, freeze it, take a shapshot, process it via Photoshop and add it to this website in jgeg format under its correct show page. Repeat ad infinitum to end of show!) but will at least provide images from shows for which there are no pre-existing photographs available.

And while this process is in its early stages, an idea struck us: many shows do have photographs of the action and, currently, some have every image captioned whilst others merely tell the viewer “awaiting caption”. This quickly leads to rather boring repetition. By far a better proposal is to add at the beginning of the photo series one further one which contains thumbnails of the cast members – in order of appearance – so that the viewer will recognise that person as the photo show progresses.

So far only Absent Friends has been thus treated and although the appearance of the thumbnails needs fine-tuning, I think it’s fair to say the idea actually works. So; one done, around a hundred to go – and that’s before we really get stuck into the video backlog.