Discovery: Apollo 15,Lift Off and The Goodies 8mm!

[LanceM]

Hello Again Everyone,

Just last evening I quite literally stumbled upon ( what I believe ) to be a another great historical find. The most important being 1:12 sec of footage shot off the TV set in 1971 from the BBC coverage of the Apollo 15 Moonlanding in 1971, with James Burke presenting no less. Right on the heels of my discovering the ITV-ITN 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing coverage with Peter Fairley no less. There are also a few fleeting seconds of footage of a Granada TV ident, and the intro-countdown for Lift Off ( stated 1972 on the clip ). Is also a BBC 2 Colour Test Card presented in context preceding the Granada TV emblem. Is interesting as would have been switching channels quite quickly to have completed this, unless was home edited of course. Somewhat of a compilation real am guessing here. I have also e-mailed the poster, attempting to ascertain if has any further footage-materials in regards. I will let everyone know if I hear anything further there. There is also is some footage from a 1971 edition of The Goodies, as well as part of a concert at The Allinsons Theater from 1974, Unknown performer- song, looked like a Rod Stewart. Any info would be appreciated on that one. Granted, this post has material that is not specifically music related, however comprises music related materials. Thought this would be a good place to post.Along with the ITN 1969 Apollo 11 Moonlanding Coverage 8mm film and audio recording of almosty an hours worth of the ITV 1969 Apollo 11 coverage on YouTube.As well as the three George Hamilton IV and Other Folk BBCTV editions from 1973 ( on b/w am guessing, hoping colour,no deffinite answer there sadly at present: 1/2in VT Spools perspectively):

Lift Off Clip, with BBC2 Test Card Preceding. Has the Girl and doll one in its original context no less. As have seen umpteen fan re-creations of this very card. Is the first time have seen in its own context on air:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b98vXO8I418

BBC 1- Apollo 15 Coverage with James Burke ( 1971, believed to have never been recorded I think here? )

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QABcHOgtFF8&feature=channel_video_title

Alinsons Theater- 1974

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6bhdzz0nyQ&feature=related

The Goodies - 1971 ( Now I know only one edition in particular this would be a real find, am most interested to find out further details here)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=17vCzzpbysE&feature=channel_video_title

Cheers, Lance.

[Douglas Wulf]

LanceM:

The Goodies clip is from Radio Goodies.

You can see the original footage here ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiXSiEJB_c0&feature=related

And here ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fJac6CCnDo&feature=related

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

Lance, I am sure the Apollo coverage is a find. Great work!

[Tim Brown]

Oct 25, 2011 23:41:54 GMT LanceM said:

Hello Again Everyone,

Just last evening I quite literally stubbled upon ( what I believe ) to be a nother great histirical find. The most important being 1:12 sec of footage shot off the TV set in 1971 from the BBC coverage of the Apollo 15 Moonlanding in 1971, with James Burke presenting no less. Right on the heels of my discovering the ITV-ITN 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing coverage with Peter Farley. There is also a few fleeting seconds of footage of a Granada TV ident, and the intro-countdown for Lift Off ( stated 1972 on the clip ). Is also a BBC 2 Colour Test Card presented in context preceding the Granada TV emblem. Is interesting as would have been switching channels quite quickly to have completed this, unless was home edited of course. Somewhat of a compilation real am guessing here. I have also e-mailed the poster, attempting to assertain if has any further footage-materials in regards. I will let everyone know if I hear anything further there. There is also is some footage from a 1971 edition of The Goodies, as well as part of a concert at The Allinsons Theatre from 1974, Unknown performer- song, looked like a Rod Stewart. Any info would be appreciated on that one. Granted, this post has material that is not specifically music related, hiowever comprises music related materials. Thought this would be a good place to post.Along with the ITN 1969 and George Hamilton IV and Other Folk:

Lift Off Clip, with BBC2 Test Card Preceding. Has the Girl and doll one in iots original context no kless. As have seen umpteen fan re-creations of this very card. Is the forst time have seen in its own contect on air:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b98vXO8I418

BBC 1- Apollo 11 Coverage with James Burke ( 1971, believed to have never been recorded I think here? )

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QABcHOgtFF8&feature=channel_video_title

Alinsons Theatre- 1974

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6bhdzz0nyQ&feature=related

The Goodies - 1971 ( Now I know only one edition in particular this would be a real find, am most interested to find out further details here)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=17vCzzpbysE&feature=channel_video_title

Cheers, Lance.

The Allinsons Theatre footage has a clip of what looks like Dustin Gee impersonating David Bowie (Aladdin Sane - 1973) & Rod Stewart, not sure who the other performers are though?

The Lift Off footage montage contains Eucalypta from Paulus the Gnome at the start - www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqJcXSYG2-s

[Paul Vanezis]

Great to see James on form; it's really a blink and you'll miss it moment though and the animation exists elsewhere. However, great to see.

Paul

[markboulton]

This guy really does seem to have come from a family that appreciates having the possession of a film camera and using it to the max. Some nice family moments from him there too. Going to gigs and filming them too, it seems this guy was seen as someone who took this quite seriously at the time. Given the very decent transfer these films have been given and how well preserved they are, I wouldn't be at all surprised that he has continued to be involved in this sort of thing semi-professionally since.

It just goes to show that even in the 70s some people were pioneering what we now know as the "social networking" kind of cameraphone video footage, which the few people who could afford the equipment and have the knowhow to do in the pre-digital, mechanical days pre-empted by three decades or more. Strange that for people to document their own lives was seen as "a bit nerdy" until the digital revolution made it all "cool". Stranger still that film-based personal records will probably last longer than digital ones. Except Facebook probably will keep everything on file forever on secret servers, even for accounts that are deleted and the material on which can't be accessed by the public!

The Apollo 15 coverage, with all the Anchar text is reminiscent (or should that be, preminiscent) of two things - video gaming (with Altitude, Time To/After launch, etc.) score-type captions, or news tickers (this type of coverage, along with Election specials, were the only two types of actuality presentation I can think of where even in the 70s dynamic captions were applied liberally to the screen). In fact, that's part of what I think is a shame about 24-hour news channels - they turn *everything* into 'event-style' Election-like rolling coverage, meaning when major events really do happen, they just blend in in presentational style.

Is it really true that no known Apollo 15 recording exists? That's a real shame. I admit to having lost track of what exists of each Apollo mission.

[andrewbillen]

Hi Lance
Every now and again I look at your clips from the ITV 1969 coverage of the moonlanding.
I was very disappointed to see it is no longer on Youtube.
Could you possible put it up again or could you put it on DVD for me? I would very happily pay to see it once more!
Best wishes
Andrew Billen