Wiped Faces TOTP Promo found

[John Gray]

The BBC made promo for Rod/Faces You Can Make Me Dance Sing Anything has emerged in full on You Tube. Originally broadcast on TOTP 12 December 74 and 9 January 75 in black and white and cut short, the promo on YT is in colour and complete timing in at 6:03. This is a major find, the promo hasn't seen the light of day since a short clip was shown at the end of Pop Quiz in the late eighties and the performance is widely listed as wiped/missing. The unlikely source is Vintage TV. Here's the link:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik6zlZchNyA&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3DPo7dJpGf6zIlEHYwrRILIsMiDy-9dxOsmQBcBXVFkoUHFPipWFV2h8E

Another Faces TOTP performance always listed as wiped is Stay With Me which has never been missing - the performance was an insert from the soon to come Sounds For Saturday.

[petercheck]

Nice find, despite the wrong aspect ratio! I knew this survived (and listed it as such in 'Look Wot They Dun!'), but hadn't seen the complete video before.

[iwest]

Mar 14, 2019 21:09:08 GMT petercheck said:

Nice find, despite the wrong aspect ratio!

Worth pointing out that if you have VLC Media Player installed you can easily watch messed-up YT uploads like this in the correct aspect ratio by going to "open network stream...", pasting in the youtube url, and then setting the correct aspect ratio in VLC via Video -> Aspect Ratio (16:9 is correct in this case as it's been wrongly squeezed, although with other videos it's often the opposite problem whereby it's wrongly stretched and you need to select 4:3 instead.) Either way it only takes about ten seconds to do and makes all the difference.

But yeah the video is a nice find

[petercheck]

Nice tip, thanks! I do know how to change the AR when I download, but obviously I don't always want to do that.

[paul carney]

Saw The Faces a couple of times and the band were well lubricated on both occasions .This led to a dip in the quality of the playing but was made up for by the full on good time rock n roll atmosphere they created.

I wonder if many people under 40 can picture Rod Stewart as an out and out rocker?