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Post by stevej on Jun 25, 2021 15:39:36 GMT
Some good stuff on Lulu's channel. This one has just been uploaded, showing her performing 'Feelin' Alright' on ATV's Engelbert Humperdinck Show. Is it me or are there a couple of rather clunky edits in this? Great clip regardless and one I've never seen before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vLpe-3Uxq8
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Post by stevej on Jun 14, 2021 7:35:37 GMT
Absolutely agree David- wonderful performance and the subtle choreography add an extra layer of visual interest. Also the technical quality of the recording is- once again- stunning.
All of the Nancy & Lee sessions were superb, but Lee Hazelwood also recorded some great versions of his famous duets on his 'Love & Other Crimes' Swedish tv special in 1968 with Siw Malmqvist:
'You've Lost That Loving Feeling' (original with Nancy Sinatra):
'Sleep In The Grass' (original with Ann Margret):
'Summer Wine' (original with Nancy Sinatra):
I really wish this tv special was available on dvd!
Steve PS- How do you insert Youtube preview windows rather than just the links?
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Post by stevej on Jun 14, 2021 7:23:07 GMT
Picture 2 looks very much like a TOTP rehearsal with no audience present. The vertical bars in the background were a feature of the set in 1970.
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Post by stevej on Apr 25, 2021 16:14:44 GMT
See post #1 John!
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Post by stevej on Apr 25, 2021 16:13:18 GMT
Great channel- really nice to see clips from It's Cliff Richard 31.1.70 in good quality. One show missing from the lists is Cliff's 1967 ATV Spectacular. I wonder if there's a better copy than this around? www.youtube.com/watch?v=o00P0EeRAZUSteve
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Post by stevej on Apr 24, 2021 19:07:50 GMT
Just stumbled across an ATV press photo for the series, which refers to a transmission time of 4.30 on Saturday afternoons in 'L' (London?), STV, Southern, Anglia and Grampian. Looks like viewers of Midlands ATV were denied the pleasure.
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Post by stevej on Apr 24, 2021 16:57:26 GMT
A long time ago, I opened a can of film at ITC called "Topo Gigio audition" which was a single camera shoot of Topo Gigio (who I used to live when I was a kid!) I initially misread that as '... Topo Gigo (who I used to live with when I was a kid)'....
Anyway.... that's interesting to know, Mark. I wonder which show that was a test for? It depends on the year I guess. The Top Gigio appearances on the Palladium seem to post-date Brucie's period of hosting.
Christian- yes I did wonder whether Tingha & Tucker annuals and toys were done through Century 21. It certainly seems to have been a marketing arm for ATV children's merchandising. I'll have to read up on Gerry Anderson to see how it all connected.
Steve
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Post by stevej on Apr 24, 2021 7:57:43 GMT
Yes it seems that Keith Alexander provided the voice for the ATV series, for some reason replacing the regular Italian voice artist as heard on the Palladium and Sullivan clips. He must have sounded quite different!
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Post by stevej on Apr 22, 2021 16:26:31 GMT
I guess if you are under 50 you may not be aware of Topo Gigio - he was (and indeed still is) a cute little Italian puppet mouse, rather beautifully performed on television in the 1960s by three very skilled puppeteers working in sync. Although he was first seen on Italian tv, he proved hugely popular with many appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show-
- and here at home notably on a number of London Palladium Shows
Presumably on the strength of his popularity on the latter, he was given his own series 'Topo Gigio Comes To Town' on ATV in late 1966. Remarkably the series survives complete according to TV Brain, although I've never seen even seen even the tiniest clip from it. Among the cast were the excellent Joe Melia, and Keith Alexander, later to be seen in U.F.O.
The series must have been popular as ATV issued at least two Topo Gigio annuals, as well as a 33rpm mini album. I'm intrigued to know how these came to be under the the Century 21 banner and indeed whether Topo Gigio was the only non-Gerry Anderson puppet to have a Century 21 connection...
Steve
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Post by stevej on Apr 20, 2021 15:23:27 GMT
That's very interesting Peter, thanks for the insight. I know the earlier RCA/Marconi 'coffin' cameras had image orthicon tubes giving the characteristic black halo around bright objects, which always looks a bit odd on colour programmes. Sequinned costumes were a bit of a nightmare! The florid colour on the Ed Sullivan Shows isn't at all natural but really suits the costumes and set designs of the flower power era.
I wonder what colour cameras ATV used for the experimental colour Palladium show recently shown on Talking Pictures?
Steve
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Post by stevej on Apr 19, 2021 13:09:56 GMT
Well worth exploring some of the music performances on this channel, with new additions almost daily. In fact it's been keeping me entertained for several evenings now. There's a lot of material that's not been used on the official Sullivan dvd compilations released by SOFA Entertainment, which have been a bit short on content given the massive size of the archive. A couple of my highlights so far have been The Mamas and The Papas 'Twelve Thirty' - a great song I'd never heard before:
or the same group's rather distracted 1967 performance of 'California Dreaming' - with added fruit content:
There are also loads of great motown and soul performances but I think my hands-down favourite so far has to be this absolute eyeful from the great Joe Cocker doing 'Feelin' Alright'.
On an technical (anorak) note, I read that the 'Ed Sullivan Theater' as that CBS studio became known, was equipped in the late 60s with Marconi MkVII cameras, as used extensively by both BBC and ITV in the early days of colour. That came as something of a surprise (if it's true) as I'd assumed US television would have pretty much exclusively used American-built RCA kit.
Steve
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Post by stevej on Apr 14, 2021 14:39:34 GMT
I think Adam Adamant was somewhat unusual in the way it was produced. As I understand it, the studio material was made using the standard set-up of multiple image-orthicon cameras and then telerecorded, with location scenes shot as normal on film, thus all the raw material was on film (rather than the usual mix of videotape and film). This was then edited together to form the episodes.
I believe the BBC tried this production method- editing the entire shows on film - as an experiment with the aim of eliminating the need for time-consuming and fiddly editing of videotape, which had to be done with the aid of a microscope in those days. It also had the advantage that the location footage looks amazingly clear as it's just edited straight in between the telerecorded studio footage. The Francis Durbridge Presents stories 'A Game Of Murder' and 'Bat Out Of Hell' also from around 1966 were made using this method of production. Both have been released on dvd and look stunning!
I do agree that the settings of a modern tv are the most likely reason for Adam Adamant gaining a 'video look'. I saw a colour film episode of The Avengers at a friend's some time ago and his modern flatscreen tv smoothed out the film motion and made it look like videotape.... very disconcerting indeed. Ultimately there is no subsitute for a good old cathode ray tube when viewing archive programmes!
Steve
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Post by stevej on Apr 6, 2021 14:43:00 GMT
A new one to me too! Very interesting. The entire show, made by Norway's NRK is here (in pristine sound and vision):
Jools and The Brian Auger Trinity toured europe extensively in the late 60s and as a result seem to be one of the better represented UK groups of that era in overseas tv archives. Not forgetting of course their memorable appearance in '33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee'...
Returning to 'Goodbye Again' another edition featured Donovan along with Ike & Tina Turner. Another double whammy! The series came under the 'Kraft Music Hall' umbrella in the States and we were treated to one of these US colour taped editions at a Kaleidoscope event a year or two back, although I don't recall seeing any musical guests in that one. Maybe they were only featured in the UK edits...?
From Wikipedia:
(All four extant, though not in their original colour - with the exception of filmed inserts)
Show 1, TX 18 August 1968 Music: Ike & Tina Turner, Donovan
Show 2, TX 24 August 1968 Music: Traffic, Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger and the Trinity
Show 3, TX 14 September 1968 Music: Georgie Fame, Selena Jones
Show 4, TX 3 August 1969 Music: Mel Torme
Interesting to note the final edition was shown many months after the first three.
Steve
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Post by stevej on Apr 5, 2021 20:10:46 GMT
Not only Traffic, but also Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity on the same edition- a pretty damn impressive line-up by anyone's standards! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJRkhZYUEJ0If I remember correctly the series was originally videotaped in colour. A dvd 'The Very Best of Goodbye Again' issued a few years ago by Granada Ventures includes some stunning colour film inserts amongst the b&w studio footage but inevitably suffers from being one long compilation - and of course there are no guest spots. The series features some very good material and is long overdue a proper release, ideally of the complete b&w telerecorded shows with the colour film inserts as bonus extras. Prime Network fodder long before now you would have thought, so there must be a tangle of rights issues. Steve
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Post by stevej on Mar 18, 2021 19:46:07 GMT
Although credited as 'Move performing in pub' - is that not the Marquee Club? I recognise the striped canopies over the stage, which can also be seen on the footage of Jimi Hendrix taped by Beat Club.
Steve
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