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Post by markboulton on Mar 25, 2022 12:40:57 GMT
For no particular reason a question popped into my head just now. Did Channel 4 have their own TK facilities to transmit films in their early years, or did they rely on everything being transferred to VT before delivery?
Of course, being based in Charlotte Street meant they were in spitting distance of dozens of Soho facilities houses.
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Post by Mark Tinkler on Mar 25, 2022 16:46:49 GMT
I worked at 60 Charlotte Street in Channel 4 Presentation for about 3 years from 1984 so I was there...
Yes, we had 2 tele-cines and even two 2 inch machines - everything was transferred to 1" for transmission. The TK folks came up with the "Bob Gillette" standard for wide-screen films as Bob was a big wig at C4 engineering and it was the decided upon number of black lines at top & bottom of screen for feature films if it was wide-screen - transmitting 16x9 was not acceptable to many 4x3 eyes and so this was a halfway house. But films still had to be pan & scanned - I think it took them 2 days to do "Billy Liar"...
The 2" machines we had the LWT masters of things like "Upstairs Downstairs" and "Budgie" in to transfer to 1" for TX.
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Post by markboulton on Mar 25, 2022 21:08:06 GMT
Absolutely fantastic comprehensive answer Mark, covers all my curiosities in one go, many thanks!
That puts the kebosh also on claims I've read in the past that C4 only had 1" machines.
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Post by Richard Marple on Mar 25, 2022 22:08:52 GMT
I'm not sure when the BBC started to use 1" tape, but were certainly using 2" to make Dr Who with until 1983.
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Post by John Wall on Mar 25, 2022 23:58:06 GMT
I'm not sure when the BBC started to use 1" tape, but were certainly using 2" to make Dr Who with until 1983. What did they use to make Sontaran Experiment? |
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Post by garycritcher on Oct 14, 2022 18:27:35 GMT
I started in VT Current Ops at Television Centre in 1984, the only programme at that point still bring recorded on 2" were the P as Bs of Wogan.
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