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Post by Dan S on Jan 12, 2022 14:40:50 GMT
...removing guns from E.T. ET was on over the Christmas period and I noticed it was the guns version.
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Post by Dan S on Jan 10, 2022 17:00:46 GMT
Ah yes, Tandberg TVs (their Series 12 open reel tape recorders were standard school issue for recording radio programmes too). They were still playing us stuff off a reel to reel machine into the early 80's. Presumably it was easier to keep on using it rather than change to cassette, although they must have done at some point surely? Everything they played us was voiced by a guy called Geoffrey Wheeler (He always announced his name at the start.)
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Post by Dan S on Jan 7, 2022 17:07:00 GMT
At school in the 70's they used to wheel out the "school tv" (I assume all schools at this time were issued with the same sort of tv, with the cardboard shades to shade the screen from the sun but which weren't always very effective when the sensible thing would have been to move the to a different corner of the room and turn the screen away from the sun) and they used to show us one of those programmes for schools. At the start of the programme the caption would say "BBC Colour" and we'd all cheer when that caption came up, then all go "awwwwwww" when the programme started and it was b&w - because it was a b&w set. The next time we were shown one of those programmes and the Colour caption came up we'd repeat our behaviour even though we knew it was a b&w set. The teacher must have got bored of us doing that every single time but we obviously thought it was fun.
At home we rented a tv. B&W at first, and then we got a colour one (also rented) sometime in the late 70's. It was always breaking down but the repair man was always prompt. One time there'd been something wrong with the picture and after the repair man had left we discovered that although the picture was now good there was no sound! We panicked because we'd not be able to watch tv that evening until 10-year-old me suggested we plug in an old b&w portable we had, and put it alongside and use it for the sound, and we were able to watch tv that evening. When the repair man came round again it only took a few seconds to fix because it was literally one wire that hadn't been reconnected.
Another time the top part of the picture gradually got narrower and narrower over the course of a week so in the end everyone had elongated cone-heads.
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Post by Dan S on Dec 6, 2021 19:47:17 GMT
He loved Timmy Mallett.
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Post by Dan S on Nov 14, 2021 14:05:53 GMT
Does anyone know of anyone with a collection of old 6 Music shows? I'm looking for a recording of a friend making a guest appearance on an episode of a show called "Queens Of Noize" in 2007, it's pretty obscure but I gather that the series isn't in the BBC Archives. (We hadn't met in 2007) Any leads gratefully pursued! Stuart If you're looking for the Paloma Faith appearance, I discovered that she never appeared on the show.
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Post by Dan S on Sept 23, 2021 15:52:58 GMT
A bit weird as the label looks like it's for an optical film soundtrack rather than 1/4" tape. Did it have a studio audience? I noticed what seem to be dubbed laughs on The Good Life recently. Despite how they sound now BBC sitcoms of that era at least were all shot in front of an audience. The episodes aren't missing, so at best the audio might contain retakes or extra material, at worst you'd get the audio of the episodes as broadcast (if Fin means final version, as opposed to 'we've finished with this, you can chuck it away now', the fact it's also crossed out suggests the latter).
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Post by Dan S on Aug 24, 2021 15:30:28 GMT
Great, thanks for the heads-up! The BBC have 5 of the shows she made for them, if they'd condescend to let us see them instead of letting them rot. Is this the show you're speaking of? Yes, that one. Out of 18 episodes made, 5 exist on video (one in b&w). That episode with Donovan as the guest is on youtube in a number of pieces, and a few songs from the other 4 shows. Would be nice to see them in full.
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Post by Dan S on Aug 23, 2021 14:52:47 GMT
Great, thanks for the heads-up! Fabulous - There's precious little of Bobbie's shows complete available. The BBC have 5 of the shows she made for them, if they'd condescend to let us see them instead of letting them rot.
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Post by Dan S on Jul 21, 2021 12:01:03 GMT
Are you not allowed to read poems on the radio?
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Post by Dan S on Apr 23, 2021 19:29:32 GMT
Ah! Nice to know they have both channels of the Stones broadcast --- years ago I was told they only had a copy of one of the channels not both, glad that's not the case!
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Post by Dan S on Apr 23, 2021 0:28:15 GMT
Ingenious. I wonder if there's ever been a TV 'experiment' in which viewers are invited to listen to BBC radio while watching BBC TV. Sounds like the kind of thing they'd have done. This is exactly how the early stereo tests were done in the late 50's. One channel (audio only) was broadcast on TV, the other channel was broadcast simultaneously on the Third Programme. (search for 'Stereophony' on Genome to find listings for these.) For example... genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/be9908e2bd2049688fc50beb1064258f
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Post by Dan S on Apr 16, 2021 14:58:57 GMT
I believe that sound and vision couldn't be transmitted at the same time, so one went first (probably vision) with the other (sound) following - I wonder if there were any complaints about repeats! Are you sure? It'd be useless listening to them seperately. It gives two different frequencies, 356.3m vision, 261.3m sound. From looking at that I'd have assumed that you'd watch the pictures on your tv set (tuned to 356.3m) while simultaneously tuning a radio to 261.3m. That reminds me of the time when I was a kid, we had a b&w tv until the mid 70's, and one time after we'd had the tv repair man out to repair the colour one which was always having faults he'd forgot to reconnect something so the picture was now fixed but there was no sound! I saved the day be suggesting we could plug in an old b&w portable that we had and have the picture from one set and the sound from the other, so we could watch tv that evening.
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Post by Dan S on Apr 14, 2021 23:41:07 GMT
I recorded a large amount of audio from Apollo TV broadcasts (particularly BBC) that I would love to share, but the BBC would be down on me like a ton of bricks. There are many places where people post that kind of content. Youtube, archive.org, other forums. Hint: You don't have to "release" it using your real name.
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Post by Dan S on Apr 12, 2021 11:11:16 GMT
That famous footage of Adèle Dixon singing 'Magic Rays of Light' would therefore have been captured by the BBC newsreels cameras, and is not what viewers would have seen (?) Yes, they saw it. "Television Comes To London" was shown 6 times in 1936. I wonder how many people had sets? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02cjphq
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Post by Dan S on Mar 30, 2021 1:06:13 GMT
I'd be interested to see what that talking penguin looks like! (Or was that in the books only?)
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