Stanley Long facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Stanley Long
Born	Stanley Alfred Long 26 November 1933 London, England
Died	10 September 2012 (aged 78) Buckinghamshire, England
Occupation	Film director, film producer, writer
Children	one daughter and two grandchildren
Parent(s)	Eleanor and Alfred Long

Stanley A. Long (26 November 1933 – 10 September 2012) was an English exploitation cinema filmmaker. He was also a driving force behind the VistaScreen stereoscopic (3D) photographic company. He was a writer, cinematographer, editor, and eventually, producer/director of low-budget exploitation movies.

Career

Long began his career as a photographer with the RAF, and helped found the stereoscopic souvenir/collectible outfit VistaScreen with the Spring Brothers in 1956. Selling out to Weetabix in 1961, Long considered other outlets for his talents.

Like Norman J. Warren, Long also made horror films. He made the anthology movie Screamtime in 1983 and was due to film a Jo Gannon script entitled Plasmid, about albino mutants living in London’s Underground. While the film was never made, confusingly a tie-in novel of Plasmid was released.

Long was also the cameraman on several British horror movies of the 1960s, including The Blood Beast Terror, Repulsion (uncredited) and The Sorcerers. For the latter he was strapped to the top of a car to film one sequence.

Long retired from film directing in the early 1980s; however, he briefly returned to direct The Other Side of the Screen in 2006, a one-off documentary about various aspects of filmmaking. This was hosted by Paul Martin, star of Flog It!.

As an entrepreneur, he was the creator of Salon Productions and Alpha Film Distribution.

Long was interviewed for the BBC's Balderdash and Piffle programme (broadcast 25 May 2007), and the British horror and comedy episodes of the British Films Forever series ("Magic, Murder and Monsters" broadcast 25 August 2007, "Sauce, Satire and Sillyness" broadcast 9 September 2007).

Simon Sheridan’s biography of Long - X-Rated - Adventures of an Exploitation Filmmaker - was published in July 2008.

Death

Stanley Long died in Buckinghamshire on 10 September 2012, at the age of 78, of natural causes.

Select credits

• West End Jungle (1961)
• London in the Raw (1964)
• Primitive London (1965)
• This, That and the Other (1969)
• Bread (1971)
• On the Game (1974)
• Eskimo Nell (1975)
• It Could Happen to You (1975)
• Screamtime (1983)

See also

• Derek Ford
• Pete Walker (director)
• Norman J. Warren
• Robin Askwith