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Post by richardwoods on May 4, 2017 15:19:25 GMT
Hi Adam, I wonder if this could be the Orange Bicycle footage which is at the BFI?... BFI Identifier 589035 Candid Camera - Programme 10 Production Country United Kingdom Production Company ABC Television Synopsis: Four Candid Camera Sequences ii) Four men try to rehearse in a recording studio but one is not genuine and cannot sing: he also interrupts the others by 'playing' the guitar. Held on 16 mm Original Negative -CTA-Mute-642 Feet-Stock Date:1966 Sounds good to me! But mute... All we need to do now is find a home taper Candid Camera fan.......
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 29, 2017 11:09:40 GMT
Does anyone with a bit more knowledge of the recovery know if the performance of The Man Who Stole the World by Lulu that was reputedly in the PVL has survived?
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 28, 2017 19:43:41 GMT
Can't fault your efforts but sadly it doesn't work for me I'm afraid. But then again as most of you know I'm not keen on telesnap recons either.
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 27, 2017 16:53:56 GMT
Interestingly enough according to a quote from 2011 on the old Popscene forum Chris from Kal was being a bit scathing about what was actually held. Do we know for sure that everything else supposedly junked was actually in their possession?
This is a direct lift from the Popscene forum and was posted by Kevin Mulrennen on 17/03/2011.
Here's Chris from Kal's view. The bloke is an expert so knows what he's talking about. You may have seen him in the Bob Monkhouse stuff recently.
Chris says on missing eps:
Can we please stop dredging up this old PVL clap-trap time and again?
Kal have had discussions with individuals that claim to represent PVL.
They have failed to provide us with a list of anything definitive, failed to show us any clips, lied about the name used to contact us, claimed that they only hold clips of missing material (not whole shows) now copied onto Betacam SP (a modern format that anyone could access so it would be easy to verify).
We broke off contact with them because of various spurious claims including my discovery that my so-called contact was using a false name to talk to me lol.
I am happy to talk to Ken direct about this collection. The BBC were also interested in talking direct to Ken but £20,000 is a lot for a small amount of missing material in non-broadcast quality (bw I was told, in the main off reel to reel and umatic sources).
Perhaps there are some real gems in this collection, but none of us are going to see it again unless you want to give £20,000 to a third party fixer. Do you? I don't lol.
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 26, 2017 17:49:06 GMT
The vast majority ISNT safe - Chris Perry stated that ~95% of the 8000 tapes in the original library had been destroyed. Mostly existing material they think. Bear in mind that Chris only broke this story yesterday morning so details are still sketchy. However there are strong hints there are more TOTP's to come. Chris has stated that there has been a partial recovery of the 500th show, although he hasnt gone into details yet apart from saying Ken hadnt recorded all of it. Plenty of room there for the glass half empty/full people. 95% of 8000=7600. A 'majority' of that as known material could in theory leave 3799 as bad news! Aaaaaargh, starts head butting wall. 😱😱😱
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 26, 2017 9:16:51 GMT
Hi John, great news that the majority of the PVL is safe and beginning to see the light of day. Has a list of the original holdings been found? Does anyone have any idea what still exists and (gulp) what's been lost? The vast majority ISNT safe - Chris Perry stated that ~95% of the 8000 tapes in the original library had been destroyed. Mostly existing material they think. Bear in mind that Chris only broke this story yesterday morning so details are still sketchy. However there are strong hints there are more TOTP's to come. Chris has stated that there has been a partial recovery of the 500th show, although he hasnt gone into details yet apart from saying Ken hadnt recorded all of it. Oh no, what a shame. I suppose that at least 5% is better than nothing. Let's hope that not too much "missing" material has gone.
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 25, 2017 18:54:04 GMT
Hi John, great news that the majority of the PVL is safe and beginning to see the light of day. Has a list of the original holdings been found? Does anyone have any idea what still exists and (gulp) what's been lost?
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 14, 2017 20:11:17 GMT
At the moment Snowmen & Evil or possibly Fury.
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 14, 2017 12:17:41 GMT
VHF used to pickup various electrical interference, lights motors etc that's my abiding memory of TV in Australia, that and a diabolical ABC signal on a curly wurly onset aerial ;-) And not forgetting that 405 line sets caused audio oscillator noise on 1500m long wave too!
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 14, 2017 12:15:45 GMT
Channel 0 (when Channel 10 started) and Channel 2 (ABC) were always affected by interference. I think it's because they were on VHF low band, I stand to be corrected on this. Channels 7 & 9 were better as they were on VHF high band, I think. Yes, that right. Belmont in East Lincs had Anglia on Channel 7 and the BBC on Channel 13 for exactly that reason. Prior to Belmont's construction North & East Lincolnshire had to rely on fringe reception from Home Moss & Sutton Coldfield, which meant that, in the summer months co channel interference was a serious problem, particularly on the band 1 BBC channels. Mind you I could get Yorkshire from Emley Moor as clear as a bell on just a dipole aerial in my bedroom on band 3. Happy memories. 😀👍
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 13, 2017 20:53:01 GMT
Thanks for the interesting link Steve.
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 12, 2017 19:35:27 GMT
60's black & white dual standard sets were problematic enough, the colour ones were on a whole different level again! I had a dual standard Philips Colour set back in the early 90's, I couldn't do a thing with it so I scrapped it. Interesting idea about the 405 line colour. It would possibly be doable but it would probably be easier to get an old US set as Aurora do a 625 line PAL to 525 line NSTC converter, and play let's pretend, lol. As I said on another thread back in the 70's I had a 405 line set with a UHF Tuner & a reversed picture polarity diode (the correct description eludes me - another senior moment, LOL) that gave a good picture on 625 line signals if you banked the horizontal hold right over and tweaked the height. OT I know but I remember the old man telling me that he watched French transmissions on 405 line in the summer with the skip in Birmingham on Band 1, IIRC they used 900 ish lines & it worked on 405 lines by missing alternate lines out. Later on (70's again) you could get PTT 1 & 2 & ZDF on UHF in the summer in Lincolnshire but only silent as the carrier frequency for audio was different on the continent.
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 11, 2017 17:52:26 GMT
Finally it's back up & running following moving house twice last year! Ran the Co-ax, connected the aurora & fired it up. Can't wait to watch The Web of Fear as it should be viewed again!
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 11, 2017 9:11:02 GMT
Cheers William, as a result of this thread I had to dust off my SAHB Stories LP last night & give it a spin. What a great album, (with the brilliant reflections in a bar mirror cover), probably the last great SAHB LP, Rock Drill wasn't as good IMHO. I probably haven't played it for 20 years but it will certainly be required listening for a while.
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 9, 2017 7:47:13 GMT
hopefully everything in the archive will be digitized one day, as I'm sure the sheet music, photographs, vinyl and film are not going to last forever... Mmm, probably a damn sight longer than the digital copies. Digital is great for public access but as for an archive it has its own risks. It's fine as a secondary copy so long as the originals continue to be maintained and the bean counters don't use it as an excuse to dump the original. Viruses, Trojans, deterioration, degrading, etc. Trouble is once a digital copy deteriorates it's a lot more difficult to restore than a hard copy. Read one of Alistair Reynolds books based on the loss of everything held on digital archive formats following a serious virus and the effect on humanity he calls it the "great forgetting". Makes you think about the wisdom of only relying on digital for archiving.
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