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Post by Paul Rumbol on Apr 19, 2019 10:05:18 GMT
Nice to see this Rediffusion show from 1959 surface in such great quality. It qualifies as Cliff's earliest surviving TV interview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp_oCcSMK-4&t=10s I knew the BFI had this years ago but without the soundtrack. Its a shame there are no clips from Oh Boy! which had finished just four months earlier.
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Jan 16, 2019 11:15:33 GMT
Some of the long-standing members of this community may recall my posts from 5 years ago when I was in the early stages of making a documentary about legendary pop producer Jack Good focusing for the most part on his pioneering TV show 'Oh Boy!'. The documentary has been completed for more than a year now but alas it remains uncommissioned. I have been invited to talk about the project with film producer Tony Sloman at The Cinema Museum in Kennington, London, on Saturday 16th March so am here today drumming up support for the event. I do hope some of you can attend. Indeed it would be great to be able to finally put faces to some of the names I have conversed with in the past. www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2018/oh-boy-its-jack-good/#more-24934The evening will stretch over two and half hours so there will be ample opportunity to show extracts from the 150 min. documentary and individual performances from the three newly discovered 'Oh Boy!' shows. Contributions from the audience will also be welcomed during the question and answer session at the end.
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Post by Paul Rumbol on May 28, 2017 11:27:01 GMT
Great news for you Geoff! its the November 1958 episode featuring John Barry Seven's final appearance performing 'Farrago'
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Jan 27, 2017 12:50:06 GMT
May i break up this spat briefly to make an impartial comment that it saddens me deeply to see two of this community's most prominent and respected members embroiled in such acrimony. The simple point i want to make is this. Our community is getting smaller year on year, and that decline will accelerate given the nation's fast changing demographic. It won't be long before future generations dismiss 50's,60's and 70s TV as an irrelevance consigned again to the basement as ancient history. For that reason we should all be striving to unite our shrinking community instead of dividing it.
I have felt that change more keenly than most recently. I made three good friends on joining this and two other forums in 2003. They have all died in the last few years and were no great age. My best friend an avid Australian collector died aged just 58 a few months ago. I revisited the once bustling 1950's themed Whirligig website recently to give them an update on my 'Oh Boy!' documentary only to find it almost deserted. The most active thread is the RIP section and was saddened to see many members who i chatted with just 6-7 years ago have all passed on. Let's all focus on the bigger picture and work together!
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Jan 14, 2017 12:33:49 GMT
I'd really love to see some sort of deal brokered here but I don't hold out much hope after nine long years.
I told Ronnie back then there is a way forward from this impasse - and that suggestion still stands true today. As a few of his tapes contain 100% material that already exists and therefore has no commercial value, he should loan/sell one of those tapes to an individual of his own choosing in whom he trusts (jbouys would be a sound choice in my opinion).
Once the tape is passed on to Videoark all these unresolved questions would be answered in a matter of weeks. But Ronnie it's only you who can end the stalemate and make that opening gambit.
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Sept 20, 2015 9:11:34 GMT
<Interesting that there is a strong empahasis in the article about ABC using videotape technology to create copies of programmes for overseas sales. From what I understand, though, I think the videotapes were usually copied/ telerecorded to 16mm film for overseas sales and the tapes reused?>
Neil back in 2001 when I was creating my now defunct website dedicated to ABC's 'Oh Boy! I had an interesting chat with the chief archivist at Thames, whose very first job at ABC in 1959 was assisting in making film prints of the final 13 'Oh Boy's!' for broadcast in America. He retired about 10 years ago and have lost contact. But looking back now I regret not grilling him for more detail. i.e. addressing the questions Neil is currently asking: what format he was copying from (tape?), were tapes often wiped without transferring, how many prints of each show were made and the percentage of shows that were being recorded and transferred to film in this way etc. My grasp of technology was and still is rudimentary to say the least , but I'm finding this thread fascinating reading by members here who obviously know their stuff.
At the time I was solely fascinated that so many Oh Boy! shows quickly went missing, so my brief write up for the website focused on that aspect alone.For what little its worth here's the text: "Len Whitcher, chief archivist at Pearson TV Group began as a 'calling messenger' at ABC Studios in early 1959 and he recalls his first job in the in-house lab was making up compressed/married 16mm prints of 'Oh Boy!' …..that is, make 'workable' prints of the shows, which combined both film and audio in one reel.He recalls that even as late as 1970 he personally had TWO, now lost, 'Oh Boy!' shows in his office. By this time Thames Television had taken over the copyright following a shotgun marriage between ABC and Rediffusion in 1968. Len by this time was working as archivist with Thames. "Looking back I wish I had kept them," he said, "but in about 1970 three ex-Vernons girls were working under their new name of 'The Ladybirds' and were recording downstairs in Studio 4 of Thames Television House in Kingsway. The production manager requested both shows be sent down because the girls wanted to have 'a laugh' during their lunch break and see how they looked backed then. The two shows were never returned." said Len. "To this day I often wondered what happened to them." I interviewed one of the Ladybirds Maggie Stredder last year for my now completed 'Oh Boy! documentary and unfortunately she has no memories of the incident.
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Sept 17, 2015 14:58:18 GMT
An earlier article from same magazine in April 1959
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Sept 16, 2015 10:13:24 GMT
Excellent release. Obviously a lot of time and effort has gone into the film restoration
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Sept 4, 2015 20:48:01 GMT
Thanks William
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Sept 4, 2015 12:54:24 GMT
Alan that's from ATV's Cliff Richard Show from 24th May 1967. That's the one Peter Sterling mentioned was returned from RTV Hong Kong over on the Reduffusion thread recently. I got mine in the mid 1990's and its that copy which has found its way onto the internet in recent years.
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Aug 7, 2015 16:08:48 GMT
I've had an abridged audio to this show for years, and Robert to my knowledge has the same copy as mine. It was recorded as usual by a 'microphone in front of the telly'. However if I were a betting man I'd wager there's a fair chance the 16mm print is lurking somewhere. Cliff only made two Rediffusion television shows: 'Aladdin' (Xmas '67) followed by his 10th anniversary special 'After Ten Fellas!' in June 1968. In 2001 the 16mm print of 'After Ten Fellas' was tracked down to a record collectors shop in Bexhill-on-Sea (now long-gone)which I purchased. Although it's only anecdotal evidence, the owner did say it came from a pool of 'Redifussion' material in someone's house (all a bit Arfur Daley was the impression I got) and 'some other guy' got the other show. The other show I had always presumed being 'Aladdin'. It all got a bit evasive when asked about particulars so I know nothing more. The 16mm print in my possession was broadcast in Ireland in 1969.
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Mar 21, 2015 17:45:23 GMT
Hi Sam, have you catalogued your collection yet and if so is it possible to post on here a list of your rare/missing material? Do you have any early music/pop/variety shows (ABC,ATV,Rediffusion shows) in your archive or do you specialize mainly in crime serials?
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Mar 5, 2015 21:15:23 GMT
Tape 18 is almost exclusively from Cliff's show on Saturday 29th January 1972 6.15 -7.00pm It's interesting to note that the original owner of these tapes couldn't have been much of an Olivia Newton-John fan - as all her songs in this Cliff series appear to have been omitted which is a shame. In this particular show she had performed 'Love Song'.
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Mar 5, 2015 20:46:00 GMT
The Cliff show on Tape 25 (12th Feb 72) is the 'Song For Europe' Special in which the New Seekers performed all six songs for Europe. (Out on the Edge of Beyond/Sing Out/Why Can't We All Get Together/One By One/Songs of Praise/Beg Steal or Borrow).
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Mar 5, 2015 20:31:51 GMT
Tape 28 is '50 Years of Music; -BBC TV -6th November 1972. The BBC retain a copy in their archive.
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