Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2014 7:22:33 GMT
Found this BBC Apollo 16 coverage on You Tube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8jkjNdeEl8
This was the first Apollo coverage I was able to audio record at the time, and I still have all my 7-inch tapes. As it was my first, it's a tape I played so much that I can still recall much of it word for word! Wonderful to see the pictures with it after all these years!!!
Interesting to see that the introduction from James Burke, as BBC 1 joined the already-under-way BBC 2 coverage, was actually taped a few minutes earlier, while TV viewers were watching an interview recorded previously with Apollo 15 commander David Scott. This video tape doesn't include that interview, as it has only the raw feed coming over from the U.S.
James Burke, I would imagine, could be very "intense" while on air - I wonder if he was a little difficult to work with(?). No disrespect to him, though; in my view he was the ultimate presenter - bar none!
Incidentally, I have for some months now worked in the business of transferring 8mm film to digital media, and I had a client last week who handed me a film that he thought contained BBC footage of the TV transmissions of Apollo 11. My excitement was brief; when I started transferring the film, it was quickly obvious that it was a commercial release.
It turned out to be film issued by the Daily Express of the Apollo 12 flight. Oddly, it began with the start of the lunar landing, and ended with the splashdown.
I never knew the Daily Express (or any other newspaper) issued films like this. Any information available?
Colin.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8jkjNdeEl8
This was the first Apollo coverage I was able to audio record at the time, and I still have all my 7-inch tapes. As it was my first, it's a tape I played so much that I can still recall much of it word for word! Wonderful to see the pictures with it after all these years!!!
Interesting to see that the introduction from James Burke, as BBC 1 joined the already-under-way BBC 2 coverage, was actually taped a few minutes earlier, while TV viewers were watching an interview recorded previously with Apollo 15 commander David Scott. This video tape doesn't include that interview, as it has only the raw feed coming over from the U.S.
James Burke, I would imagine, could be very "intense" while on air - I wonder if he was a little difficult to work with(?). No disrespect to him, though; in my view he was the ultimate presenter - bar none!
Incidentally, I have for some months now worked in the business of transferring 8mm film to digital media, and I had a client last week who handed me a film that he thought contained BBC footage of the TV transmissions of Apollo 11. My excitement was brief; when I started transferring the film, it was quickly obvious that it was a commercial release.
It turned out to be film issued by the Daily Express of the Apollo 12 flight. Oddly, it began with the start of the lunar landing, and ended with the splashdown.
I never knew the Daily Express (or any other newspaper) issued films like this. Any information available?
Colin.