Lindsay Dodd

Lindsay Dodd (born August 12, 1954) held the world record for backwards walking as reported in the Guinness Book of Records 1974 and 1977/1978 editions.On the March 20, 1974, at age 19, he walked backwards for 52.5 miles or 84.5 km from Leeds to Ingleton, both in Yorkshire, England, in 14 hours.

The 1977/1978 edition mentions that "the longest distance reported for walking backwards in 24 hours is 80 miles 128.74 km by Lindsay R. Dodd from Leeds, West Yorkshire to Kendal, Cumbria, 9–10 April 1976."

Television/Film Career

Lindsay has a very successful career in high quality TV productions, was BAFTA nominated [http://www.bafta.org/site/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/import/TV_and_Craft_Winners_1990-1999.pdf BAFTA nominated] as a film maker in 1992 and has won a string of awards. [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pad-music/images/smallbafta.jpgBAFTA CERTIFICATE] He started his musical career as a soprano in the local church choir in the mining village of Burnopfield, County Durham, where he won awards. His biggest musical venture was the film "Speleogenesis". Emmy Award winning cameraman Sid Perou was the Director of Photography on the film. Lindsay assisted Sid by doing the lighting, editing and music production

Exploration

Lindsay was also a member of the expedition team which travelled to Borneo in 1980 to explore caves in the Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak. He was with Andrew Eavis, [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3120/is_200310/ai_n7779857 Cave man: Andy Eavis is one of Britain's most accomplished speleogists, having led numerous subterranean exploratory expeditions the world over and helped to introduce China to the science. Christian Amodeo caught up with the Hull-based businessman to talk about his lifelong passion for caves.(Long Live Dreams [TM)(Interview) | Geographical | Find Articles at BNET.com ] ] , Sid Perou, [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1099329/ Sid Perou ] ] , Geoff Yeadon, [ [http://www.cavedivinggroup.org.uk/Essays/History/1970.html CDG History 1970 - 1979 ] ] , and Hans Friedrich [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:pLWW6rlkBmgJ:www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/pubs/pdfs/cavescircular9.pdf+hans+friedrich+mulu&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=uk] on the second trip ever, and the first filming trip to enter what was to become Sarawak Chamber. The film of this event was subsequently transmitted in the television series The Realm of Darkness [ [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/327168?view=credit BFI | Film & TV Database | The REALM OF DARKNESS (1986) ] ] .

During the 1970s and 1980s, Lindsay Dodd was a staff member at Yorkshire Television, working mainly in the Film Sound Department on a number of contemporary programmes. Dr. Rob Buckman wrote of him in his book "The Buckman Treatment" "with a lot of support and Nagging from Paul Dunstan" [ [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/126386?view=credit BFI | Film & TV Database | DUNSTAN, Paul ] ] the following:- "We had various odd bods on sound - the oddest was, and is, the extraordinary Lindsay Dodd who firmly believes he is a character from a Rod Steiger movie, although he is not sure which one" First published in Great Britain 1989 by Macmillan London Limited (copyright Robert Buckman).

In the late 1990s, Lindsay achieved recognition by travelling to Chernobyl [ [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/457897?view=credit BFI | Film & TV Database | CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL (1991) ] ] in the course of his work in television and was privileged to spend a great deal of his life studying and filming remote tribes in four different continents: MAURTIANIA NOMADS [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pad-music/images/final%20small.jpg] , SIBERIA NOMADS [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pad-music/images/siberia1.jpg] . All of these projects won multiple awards.

In 1999, Lindsay was part of Richard Brown's [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/188755.stm BBC News | Sci/Tech | Revving up for records ] ] team (with Nick Lord [ [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/296199?view=credit BFI | Film & TV Database | LORD, Nick ] ] of Sunset and Vine and others from "The Speed Record Club" [ [http://www.speedrecordclub.com/ Speed Record Club ] ] ) that attempted to break the World Record for the fastest two-wheeled vehicle at Bonneville Salt Flats. The attempt was successful in that Richard achieved the fastest one way pass ever recorded at that time. The bike travelled at up to 365mph [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/759031.stm BBC News | SCI/TECH | Rocket biker aims for space record ] ] . Lindsay was responsible for specialist camerawork and sound and fitted miniature cameras to the rocket powered bike. The Film was transmitted as " The MISSION: The FASTEST MAN ON TWO WHEELS" [ [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/643313?view=credit BFI | Film & TV Database | The FASTEST MAN ON TWO WHEELS (2000) ] ] on the BBC in 2000. Richard Brown is currently working on a "jet-pack" project [ [http://www.jet-pack.co.uk/content.aspx?guid=9a0e16ca-86a2-480f-841e-ad107fdea709 Jetpack HomePage ] ]

Lindsay also pioneered covert or undercover film making in the UK throughout the 1990s and in his spare time today gives lectures as "The Real Life Q". [ [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pad-music/images/Q.htm The Real Life Q ] ] [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pad-music/images/POSTERLINDSAYDODD.jpgLECTURE]

In the 21st century, Lindsay became acquainted with Moose (Paul Curtis) and was involved with his dirt graffiti projects. Examples can be seen here [http://www.brightonart.org/archive/durt/index.html here] and here [ [http://www.symbollix.com/main.html main ] ] .

Currently, Lindsay writes lyrics [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pad-music/images/Kylie.tif] and assists in the production of musical [ [http://www.songplanet.com/pad PAD on SongPlanet.com ] ] and other entrepreneurial ventures.

External links

* [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/55275?view=credit Lindsay Dodd BFI]
* [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/753059?view=credit Lindsay Dodd BFI]
*imdb name|0230092
* [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pad-music/images/cv.htm Lindsay Dodd web cv]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9VePfOXn3o ROCKET BIKE VIDEO CLIP]

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