George McMeekan was a civil engineer at the time he was making amateur films, including his favourite, “The Last Pinta”. It was a film motivated by his father’s ill health and an attempt to capture him at work on his milk round before he was forced to retire. “I had started off in stills photography developing my own pictures and progressed into movie making in 1968. I was motivated by starting to have a family and I wanted to film them growing up and going on holidays”. George began using a Canon E60 Super 8 Sound camera and became a member of the North Down Movie Makers in 1972, a club he is still a member of today under its new guise of the Northern Ireland Camcorder Users Club having moved onto using video cameras himself in 1992. George’s memories of watching his movies on his projector include how, “everyone always liked to see themselves on the big screen, even though they said it was ‘a chore’ at the time of filming!” Unfortunately, George doesn’t often get the chance to view his movies today as he has no video or digital transfers of them and “the projector is broken with no one to fix it”. Looking back at his film-making days George reflects, “Unfortunately I did not take enough of the changes that happened around me but I did take a lot of footage of my family life. My three daughters got married and I had three cameras at each occasion! Then I had to try to edit them all together afterwards”. His fondest memories though are reserved for the film which was included in Super 8 Stories and which now resides in the Digital Film Archive. “My brother, James, and myself are very glad we made ‘The Last Pinta’ about our father, especially after it was shown on TV with such a warm response from our local community”.