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Post by edstradling on Dec 16, 2015 20:31:09 GMT
So, I've finally gotten around to starting on these - a bunch of tapes he bought from the BBC circa 1981 to re-use as blanks, but there are 200 or so he never got around to wiping, and which carry BBC programmes from the 70s.
Lots of tapes have problems and some have sadly been bulk-erased. However I'm currently looking through an edition of Reportage from 1973, presented by Frank Birkett, which is playing back pretty well, and has a lot of fun clips of German TV.
But all I can say, having sat through quarter of an hour already, is that I bloody well hope it's missing.
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Post by John Green on Dec 16, 2015 21:08:26 GMT
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Post by edstradling on Dec 16, 2015 21:19:49 GMT
Yes, it's Lord Michael Birkett. Not Frank. I was looking at a tape of Frank Spencer when I posted that! Anyway, aside from the usual wobbles at the start, it played back ok. It was an off-air recording from the original TX in October 73. It's this episode genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7ce67f150d8f468ba23cb47407431d60
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Post by Stephen Byers on Dec 16, 2015 21:23:45 GMT
Sadly bundles of such tapes ain't gonna be around for much longer. Charity Shops are refusing all video and audio tapes of all formats. The only source will be car boot sales. At Greenwich Market some year's' ago I was offered a whole set of home-taped Jimmy Perry's 'Turns' (BBC Music Hall) tapes. I never went back to get them. The trader is no longer there.
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Post by John Green on Dec 16, 2015 21:30:46 GMT
Yes, it's Lord Michael Birkett. Not Frank. I was looking at a tape of Frank Spencer when I posted that! Anyway, aside from the usual wobbles at the start, it played back ok. It was an off-air recording from the original TX in October 73. It's this episode genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7ce67f150d8f468ba23cb47407431d60 Hmm,I get 'flimmerkiste' translating as 'boob'.Fun if it had missing clips of German TV!
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Post by edstradling on Dec 16, 2015 21:39:13 GMT
It had an amusing shot of a German TV magazine promotion of Jason King!
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Post by John Green on Dec 16, 2015 22:09:57 GMT
And Hurrah! to Ian Levine for getting and keeping these.
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Post by edstradling on Dec 16, 2015 22:20:31 GMT
Shall we turn this thread into my Philips 1500 diary? The next tape was the 19/1/75 episode of "Out of the Rut" but it wouldn't track properly. Philips tapes are notorious for this. The next one is playing fine and was labelled with something illegible but is in fact the episode of Music Arcade which features Dr Who, which I once used a clip of in a programme of mine. Worth it for the "Schools and Colleges" intro though and a nice "follows shortly" at the end. TX 02/02/1982 and it's followed by "Communicate!" which almost certainly will exist as it's all film.
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Post by John Green on Dec 16, 2015 22:33:54 GMT
Shall we turn this thread into my Philips 1500 diary? it's followed by "Communicate!" which almost certainly will exist as it's all film. Maybe that should read "bloody well ought to exist"! Yep,the 1980 series exists in full.
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Post by edstradling on Dec 16, 2015 23:03:15 GMT
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Post by RWels on Dec 16, 2015 23:09:22 GMT
Out of interest (/to make your life harder): Do you also check if nothing is at the end of the tape after the first show it contains?
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Post by edstradling on Dec 16, 2015 23:38:08 GMT
Generally yes, unless they are BBC tapes which start with time clocks. The machines are so fragile and liable to be screwed by dodgy tapes (Scotch tapes in particular seem to be dangerous), or to get a tape stuck in the mechanism. So I'm generally fearful of too much winding through tapes. But if it's an off air recording then I will.
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Post by RWels on Dec 17, 2015 7:37:23 GMT
Who knows! If you come upon I, Claudius episode "Zeus by Jove", you might even find the uncut ending!
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Post by Chris Singh on Dec 17, 2015 7:59:32 GMT
I thought Ian said that some of these are studio session tapes for the BBC Shakespeare series, I would love to see these, I only know of 1 outtake for the whole 1978-1985 series. As You Like It - 1978
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Post by John Green on Dec 17, 2015 8:55:29 GMT
I thought Ian said that some of these are studio session tapes for the BBC Shakespeare series, I would love to see these, I only know of 1 outtake for the whole 1978-1985 series. As You Like It - 1978 Good one.Am I right in thinking that an entire play was pretty much canned?
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