Fayrstede Director Stanley Long

The proprietor of Fayrstede Productions has spent over forty five years in the movie business starting with over twenty four documentary films made for the Ministry of Defence and others, he has been involved in over thirty feature movies,as cinematographer,editor, director and producer ,working with some of the greatest names in the business such as, Boris Karloff,Peter Cushing, Roman Polanski, David Bailey, Sir John Mills, Jack Cardiff ,plus many great comedy names of the sixties and seventies.

Stanley Long as painted by Hamish Moyle

In the mid fifties Stanley Long developed a 3D system and photographed over 200 sets of 3D photographs. The system was named Vistascreen and the story is told on Tim Goldsmith's website. Click Here

Vistascreen Viewer and 3D Photographs

Stanley is seen on the left. On the right is Don Lord camera assistant and later to become a well known director of photography. The 11 camera setup is clearly shown.

In 1975- 6 he produced and directed all the highly successful ‘Adventure Series’ comedy films (aired many times on television). In 1975 he started film distribution company, ALPHA, which became the largest independent in England. Alpha was sold to INTERVISION PLC in1982. Long then started the editing equipment hire company SALON LTD servicing many major feature films ,including ‘Saving Private Ryan’,the ‘Bond’movies, the ‘Harry Potter’ movies and ‘Batman Returns’The interest in SALON was sold in 2005 and Long returned to movies.

Stanley's filmography can be found at the IMDB, Click Here