Lindsay Dodd

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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.

Contents 1 Television/Film Career 2 Exploration 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Television/Film Career

Lindsay has a very successful career in high quality TV productions, was ^[1] as a film maker in 1992 and has won a string of awards.^[2] 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.

[edit] 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, ^[3], Sid Perou, ^[4], Geoff Yeadon, ^[5], and Hans Friedrich^[6] 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^[7].

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"^[8] 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 ^[9] 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^[10], SIBERIA NOMADS ^[11]. All of these projects won multiple awards.

In 1999, Lindsay was part of Richard Brown's ^[12] team (with Nick Lord ^[13] of Sunset and Vine and others from The Speed Record Club ^[14]) 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 ^[15]. 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 ^[16] on the BBC in 2000. Richard Brown is currently working on a "jet-pack" project ^[17]

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". ^{[18] [19]}

In the 21st century, Lindsay became acquainted with Moose (Paul Curtis) and was involved with his dirt graffiti projects. Examples can be seen here ^[20] and here^[21].

Currently, Lindsay writes lyrics ^[22] and assists in the production of musical ^[23] and other entrepreneurial ventures.

[edit] External links

• Lindsay Dodd BFI
• Lindsay Dodd BFI
• Lindsay Dodd at the Internet Movie Database
• Lindsay Dodd web cv
• ROCKET BIKE VIDEO CLIP

[edit] References