MOTD: 70s editions b/w

[Ben Rigsby]

www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a591102/david-beckham-alan-sugar-russell-brand-in-match-of-the-day-at-50-clips.html#~oNxakTLqDu6Iem
(click on 3rd video, history of MOTD presenters, 0.44)

Just been looking at the above and there's a b/w clip of Jimmy Hill introducing MOTD at the start of 73/74 season. Do some 70s editions of the show no longer exist in colour? Or is it just the presenter links that no longer exist in that form?

[patrickashby]

Almost no complete editions of 'Match Of The Day' are kept on colour digibeta until the mid-1970s. All that remains on colour VT are the goals, and not even all of those, unfortunately, due to the occasional 'finger trouble' which meant that the odd one was missed out during dubbing. However, I understand that exists in full from the 1969-75 era on monochrome film, which is why occasionally clips of the early Jimmy Hill era crop up in black-and-white. I don't happen to know whether or not any of this film might have chroma-dots down its side, so maybe a future colour recovery might be possible? 

[patrickashby]

Humble pie alert: I write criticising others of 'finger trouble', then make a complete mess of sentence construction. What I meant to write was 'I understand that the complete original programmes exist in full from 1969 - 75 on monochrome film'. Apologies.

[Kelvin Walker]

Here is an example Ben:
1974 West Ham United vs Hereford United youtu.be/3ONsbKtK17M
1974 Manchester City vs Coventry City youtu.be/2146eUqxeWY
1974 QPR vs Birmingham City youtu.be/t-01unmKm6E
1974 Fulham vs Leicester City youtu.be/pD7sPuz-hnI
The above goals are in COLOUR

youtu.be/gIFrhkOO2xc
The same goals plus two additional goals are taken from January 1974 Goal of the Month are in BLACK and WHITE

[John Green]

Aug 22, 2014 16:43:00 GMT patrickashby said:

Humble pie alert: I write criticising others of 'finger trouble', then make a complete mess of sentence construction. What I meant to write was 'I understand that the complete original programmes exist in full from 1969 - 75 on monochrome film'. Apologies.

Easy enough to make everything perfect by clicking on 'edit post'.I do it all the tine,