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Post by Gary Wilson on May 28, 2012 21:33:08 GMT
Please all, forgive my ignorance but I wonder if anyone can put me out of my misery.
Some listings of shows on the site which survive on inferior formats have little annotations as to the format/quality.
Can someone tell me what
Holding=NT, Source=NT
stands for.
Sure to be obvious and prepared for an embarrassed red face, but please go right ahead and inflict it on me cos it is annoying me !! ;D
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Post by RWels on May 29, 2012 20:31:24 GMT
Nope, can't think of any explanation either.
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Post by John Green on May 30, 2012 1:36:44 GMT
There's always the National Theatre...
Could you give us some examples?
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Post by Christopher Perry on May 30, 2012 6:24:58 GMT
All our codes appear in the book versions so anyone who has a guide of ours from approx 1995 onwards will have a list of codes to check against.
NT refers to an NTSC copy.
I agree it can be confusing if you don't know the codes but the db has to find someway of being specific on holdings when space is at a premium.
c
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Post by Gary Wilson on May 30, 2012 6:29:42 GMT
Thanks for that Chris. Most of the annotations are straight forward but that one stumped me. Thanks.
The reason I particularly asked was that the Canadian Library & Archives has a "complete" run of the Jo Stafford Show on 16mm telerecordings and I wanted to judge if this was a better format than that known to exist (or indeed would be of interest to help restore whatever format exists).
I say "complete" reservedly because they actually list 9 episodes rather than 10....but I would be surprised if all 10 weren't in there.
The listed episodes on 16mm prints are (by guest star as Canadian broadcast dates differ from UK ones)
- Benny Hill, Peter Lawford, Kenneth Connor
- Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Patricia Hayes, Graham Stark
- Morcambe & Wise, Stanley Holloway, Robert Morley (Palladium show)
- Bob Hope, James Darren
- Harry Secombe (Xmas show)
- Peggy Lee, Roy Castle
- Ella Fitzgerald, Claire Bloom
- Rosemary Clooney, Mel Torme
- an unidentified episode Canadian airdate 29/11/62 which will either be
- "Transportation" with Roy Castle, Kenneth More, or
- The Four Seasons
leaving the other of these two unlisted.
However they may be of little improvement/interest on the current known holdings.
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