It's time for another "Throwback Thursday," where we dig deep into the archives and blow the dust off some production memories.

The year: 1983. The place: Qingdao, China. The event: A young "Java Jack" Tunnicliffe (pictured) and a slightly-older-than-Jack-but-also-young Tom Davidson are shooting promotional footage for a troupe of skilled Chinese acrobats who would soon be touring Canada.

As Tom Davidson recalls: "We where shooting outside on location and it was crazy hot that day. I complained to our handlers that the film in the camera was getting too hot and could they find an umbrella to shade the camera. One of the female dancers just literally took off her dress to drape over the camera. Crazy, but true. The next day and every day thereafter, there was a man waiting outside the hotel in the mornings to hold an umbrella over my head wherever I went. If I ran, he ran. It was weird and freaky."

For you film gear-heads out there, check out the vintage ARRI BL 16mm sync-sound camera, mounted on an O'Connor 50 tripod head and swanky wooden - yes, wooden! - Mitchell tripod legs.

No new-fangled 4K sensors and carbon-fibre tripods for these two young lads!