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Post by LanceM on Nov 22, 2008 7:00:04 GMT
I had heard that Elvis had a CV-2000 machine in the mid 1960's ! I too remember the talk of the Beatles having VTR's, definitely know Paul McCartney had one, as was discussed. Know that Marc Bolan had a early VCR/VTR of some sort. Makes you wonder, as was in the case of The Sweet members whose tapes passed through a few hands over the years, or thrown out by vengeful wives/girlfriends. Poor Steve, what a way to go for all his stuff, can just see it:
" Where are all my guitars ? " " Oh those old things, tossed them out, now look at all the room there is".
Also just another thought, which the retired record producers, record managers, etc who used to work closely with these bands, would of been in a position to keep a copy of a old TV performance or show to display to others. As have heard of classic film/video TV promo's or footage recovered in this fashion before.Better a shot in the dark than none at all.
Most the time with transfer companies especially private ones, is that they are bound to protect the information of their clients, which included the titles/material content. As have talked to a few transfer companies in the past, most all were met with the response that the information of their clients is " Private" and understandingly so. Instead of asking them what they have transfered in the past, you can let them know what they might want to be keeping a lookout for in the future. Hopefully they might be able to forward any interested parties in the right direction. Just a thought.
Cheers, Lance.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2008 20:30:00 GMT
Maurice Gibb had a video camera in about 1970 as he used to make films .
He lived next door to Ringo Starr at one point and they would fool about with the video camera and make films.
Some of the films exist on a BeeGees fan video.
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Post by markjhaley on Dec 4, 2008 14:53:51 GMT
My Dad bought one of the early Phillips VCR's. I remember the first thing we recorded was the Ali-Foreman fight late 1974. There were several understandable problems with them: The machine frequently went wrong and had to be repaired. The price of the cassettes was astronomical so, more often than not, we would quickly record over stuff. The longest cassette was 1 hour. The other option was a 30 minute cassette. You only had to play them a few times and the tracking would degrade to the point of being un-watchable. Curiously the picture would be fine again when a new recording was made. It was no surprise when VHS came out and blew it away I know we would often tape TOTP, 45, OGWT watch the clips a few times then (and I'll apologise profusely here right now) record over it with something new. Two tapes emerged during a house move . One was a recording of a show called 'Pop At The Mill' which I'd attended Summer 1977. I guess that's why I kept it. I had it transferred onto DVD and the guy who did it managed to save the first 6 or so minutes. It has the opening titles then the Rubettes performing an album track. then Helen Shapiro. There's some screen grabs here. 70sfanclub19-27.tripod.com/id1.htmlThe other was a Top Of The Pops/Get It Together from autumn 1978. Some friends of mine were in a local band called Dandy and miraculously were invited on both shows to promote their single 'Disco Dancer'. I gave them the tape which they managed to partly get transferred over. The TOTP they were on is in the BBC archive. The 'Rick Wakeman' angle is a valid one. I know one musician who was in 2 fairly successful bands in the 60's and 70's and he has a ton of stuff, including cine footage, that he intends to archive.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Dec 24, 2008 10:00:11 GMT
I have found another 'early' VCR user, although not quite as early as I liked, and similarly to Marc Bolan, it's not like we can ask him if he has anything. The night before he died in 1978, Keith Moon was watching a video of a horror movie. I know most of the archive we're looking for is PRE-1978, but I thought I'd mention this. The subject is brought up by his ex-partner Annette Walter-Lax on a A & E Network/BBC co-production documentary which was shown on the Biography Channel. Is it worth asking any ex-musicians directly if they have any film/video? I have TENUOUS connections to a few hitmakers from the 60s and 70s (mainly friends of friends). It's a pity I don't know Pete Townshend, actually....I've heard HE has an archive, and apparantly he's moved to a house just down the road from where I rehearse.
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Post by Pete Seaton on Oct 20, 2009 6:36:15 GMT
When Marc Bolan died i though either his parents or his house suffered a break in and thats where his tapes went, possibly
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Oct 20, 2009 7:32:30 GMT
His house DID suffer a break-in, absolutely right Pete. A few of his possessions have been found since, but from what I gather, little to nothing was returned to any family members.
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Post by Oliver Roemer on Oct 20, 2009 22:05:53 GMT
Nov 21, 2008, 5:19pm, Peter Elliott wrote:
Yepp, quite a few of them had this luxury in the late 60's and early 70's. It wasn't only Maurice Gibb who had a private Video facility, so had his brother Barry Gibb, proofed and shown in this clipping from an article in the german pop magazine "BRAVO", Issue # 39, September 22nd, 1969 from my collection: The article quoted, that the "little joke" of a TV-Studio in the living room cost 20.000 Deutsche Mark (DM), an incredible sum in today's wages !!! To me this looks like a black & white 1/2" reel to reel model probably build by SONY. Best regards, Oliver. EDIT 21/10/2009: From what I've seen on the net so far, the depicted Reel to Reel is a SONY CV 2000 : www.rewindmuseum.com/reeltoreelvideo.htm
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Post by Jeff Lewis on Oct 21, 2009 20:13:56 GMT
I’m sure I read somewhere that all of the Beatles were given video recorders in 1966. John Lennon certainly had a video camera by 1971 as he discussed using it in an interview that year. This was reported a few years ago in article by the Radio Times. Each member of the Beatles were given an early video recorder to test by the BBC. Unfortunatly no infomation was included about what the group recorded.
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