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Post by edstradling on Dec 18, 2015 14:37:44 GMT
Well the Why Don't You? is all captured, but will take a while to sort out! Dropped frames etc. Will get around to it at some point.
Just been trying one of Ian's off-airs, incidentally, which plays beautifully. Sadly it's an off-air Star Trek (TX 26/9/78), which is no use to man or beast!
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Post by John Smith on Dec 18, 2015 17:07:07 GMT
If you need a hand digitising any of these let me know, got a fully restored N1502 & n1702 sitting idle here hooked upto a DV CAM deck:
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Post by edstradling on Dec 18, 2015 17:52:29 GMT
So, I've just found a tape labelled "Cliff Richard Eurovision 1973 & Olivia Newton-John 1974". It's essentially their "Song for Europe" shows where they sang a bunch of songs and a winner was chosen. Neither show is 100% complete, certainly neither show has opening titles. The first programme, I think must be this edition of Cilla, which exists according to lostshows. The second one is almost certainly this episode of Clunk Click, and it's missing according to lostshows website. Looks like this tape will play pretty well. I guess ONJ fans might well be interested. The bad news of course is that Savile is in it, slobbering all over ONJ at the start. The good news is this tape plays pretty well, wobbling is generally restricted to the overscanned areas. The bad news is that I think the belts on my machine have just gone. So the next update could be a month or two away!
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Post by John Green on Dec 18, 2015 18:20:04 GMT
The second one is almost certainly this episode of Clunk Click
The bad news is that I think the belts on my machine have just gone.
The irony! Seriously,great stuff,and I hope you can keep on keeping on.
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Post by RWels on Dec 18, 2015 18:26:12 GMT
Just in case: Potentially you might also be able to find parts or expertise in the Netherlands, seeing how that was the home of the philips company.
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Post by Ken Griffin on Dec 19, 2015 11:26:18 GMT
Generally yes, unless they are BBC tapes which start with time clocks. You generally should go through to the end on all tapes. I have encountered Philips tapes dubbed from 2" masters which have other material at the end.
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Post by edstradling on Dec 19, 2015 13:28:00 GMT
As I said, it's risk/reward. My machine now doesn't work after playing only 50-odd tapes. I will go through all the tapes in full eventually. But priorities!
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Post by Ken Griffin on Dec 19, 2015 13:42:54 GMT
I will go through all the tapes in full eventually. That's good. Some of the best things I have found on domestic tapes have been among fragments at the end of tapes.
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Post by edstradling on Dec 19, 2015 14:14:35 GMT
As I said, most of Ian's early recordings (from 76-79) have cartoons at the end. Some BBC tapes do have nice stuff at the end, but most just go to black. I just gave the TV Museum a junction between Shoestring and the News in 1980.
Anyway that's all for now until I fit the new belts to the machine. Waiting to find out whether or not that's something I can do myself, I suspect not!
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Post by Gary Critcher on Dec 20, 2015 9:14:33 GMT
this is all really interesting, but I have just one question. Everyone seems to know (of) him but I don't, who is/was this Ian Levine guy?
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Post by edstradling on Dec 20, 2015 9:47:27 GMT
Google is your friend.
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Post by Gary Critcher on Dec 20, 2015 11:42:58 GMT
can't you just answer the question?
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Post by edstradling on Dec 20, 2015 12:02:40 GMT
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Post by edstradling on Feb 10, 2017 19:53:07 GMT
Just to let people know this project is back on after a gap of a year or so. Only around 15% of the way into the collection (which is mostly Ian's but there are tapes from other sources too). Lots of nice bits & bobs found already, probably already enough for a Missing Believed Wiped session if it's a bad year for film recoveries. Hopefully it will be a good year so nobody will be interested. Keep your eyes on the TV Museum youtube channel as I'll be send the odd snippet that way
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Post by Chris Singh on Feb 11, 2017 0:07:09 GMT
Glad to hear this is back up and running. After you have gone through all the tapes is it possible to replay them all to the end in case you missed anything ?
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