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Post by Paul Vanezis on Dec 1, 2022 22:17:02 GMT
Hi all,
Dick Fiddy has announced "A feast of newly unearthed performances from Top of the Pops" which "will screen as part of the Missing Believed Wiped screening this Saturday (Dec 3) at BFI Southbank!"
I can't make it because I have family commitments, but I have been compiling the material for Dick. It's turned up as part of The Radio Times Treasure Hunt initiative.
From the BFI South Bank website:
"With huge thanks to our colleagues at the Radio Times Treasure Hunt, we are delighted to announce the first screenings anywhere of an exciting new find. Earlier this month we learned of a precious collection of over 20 missing performances from Top of the Pops (in 1973) recovered from Roger Hill, a private collector who had filmed the material from the TV screen (on Super 8) and taped the sound on ¼” tape. At this year’s Missing Believed Wiped event we will get the first glimpse of some of these wonderful finds including performances from T-Rex, Roxy Music, The Faces, 10CC, Hot Chocolate and Gladys Knight."
More news on Saturday after the screening!
Paul
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Post by John Wall on Dec 1, 2022 23:17:19 GMT
I’ll be there, got my ticket 👍
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Post by martinbarden on Dec 3, 2022 18:54:40 GMT
This was an absolute treat, including:
Faces: Cindy Incidentally, Roxy: Pyjamarama, Sweet: Hell Raiser, T.Rex: The Groover, Stealers Wheel: Stuck in the Middle With You, Wings: My Love, Suzi Quatro: Can The Can, Hot Chocolate: Brother Louis, Slade: Skweeze Me Pleeze Me, Mott the Hoople: Honaloochie Boogie, Mud: Crazy, 10cc: Dean and I, Nazareth: Bad Bad Boy, Gladys Knight and the Pips: Where Peaceful Waters Flow.
Roger Hill - the chap who made the Super 8 recordings from his 12" TV spoke beforehand. He was a club DJ who worked out that if he showed footage to complement the sound of the hits of the day it would keep the kids happy - and then kept the tapes in his loft for almost 50 years. The quality was much better than might be expected - and this transfer was done only as recently as this Tuesday. Huge thanks to him, Paul Vanezis and colleagues who made all this possible.
I was there for The Groover and it was wonderful to see this again after so long. All we had until today was photographs of the rehearsal and to see it come to life was quite something.
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Post by Bob Savage (robstar) on Dec 4, 2022 2:11:44 GMT
So what happens now with these priceless clips, would love to see The Groover!
Is it broadcastable and are the BBC interested? They haven't shown any interest in reshowing the other TRex found TOTP clips like New York City, Teenage Dream.
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Post by Paul Vanezis on Dec 4, 2022 16:28:54 GMT
So what happens now with these priceless clips, would love to see The Groover! Is it broadcastable and are the BBC interested? They haven't shown any interest in reshowing the other TRex found TOTP clips like New York City, Teenage Dream. The BBC Archive are very interested in the material and will be taking delivery next week. As for the re-use of it, tricky. The quality is substantially below that of other similar surviving material. Nevertheless, the appropriate people will be informed. In all cases it's what use programme makers can find for this kind of stuff, bearing in mind that there is a wealth of rarely or never seen material of much higher quality sitting untouched in the archive. Paul |
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Post by martin63 on Dec 4, 2022 17:18:14 GMT
So we got The Faces, Roxy Music, Mud, Wings, Stealers Wheel, Hot Chocolate, The Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Junior Campbell, Mott the Hoople, T Rex, Slade, Nazareth, 10cc and Gladys Knight and the Pips.
All very watchable and some really good performances. The stand outs for me were Stealers Wheel, Mott, Sweet, Slade, Suzi Quatro, T Rex and The Faces.
Probably not broadcast quality - but certainly footage that fans of the various bands will really savor and enjoy.
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Post by Thomas Walsh on Dec 6, 2022 8:15:40 GMT
Personally I'd love to do away with that most annoying phrase "Broadcast quality". It's completely moribund now. The biggest shows on TV are using thousands of awful pixelated clips taken from YouTube and no one gives a t os s. Why does it only apply to rare music related clips? Resign it to the wiped dustbin of history along with "Guilty Pleasure".
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Post by garygraham on Dec 6, 2022 22:29:44 GMT
I can think of several creative ways this footage could be used. However I don't work for the BBC. Why Don't You just sack all the executives and marketeers, bin all the tired old templates, and make some good programmes instead?   |
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Post by petercheck on Dec 7, 2022 8:20:43 GMT
Personally I'd love to do away with that most annoying phrase "Broadcast quality". It's completely moribund now. The biggest shows on TV are using thousands of awful pixelated clips taken from YouTube and no one gives a t os s. Why does it only apply to rare music related clips? Resign it to the wiped dustbin of history along with "Guilty Pleasure". Whenever someone dies these days, the BBC news includes clips from youtube (some of the footage used for their Jerry Lee Lewis "tribute" was almost unwatchable, yet that same footage is available on official DVDs in pristine quality!). |
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Post by Mark Tinkler on Dec 7, 2022 11:29:42 GMT
Personally I'd love to do away with that most annoying phrase "Broadcast quality". It's completely moribund now. The biggest shows on TV are using thousands of awful pixelated clips taken from YouTube and no one gives a t os s. Why does it only apply to rare music related clips? Resign it to the wiped dustbin of history along with "Guilty Pleasure". Whenever someone dies these days, the BBC news includes clips from youtube (some of the footage used for their Jerry Lee Lewis "tribute" was almost unwatchable, yet that same footage is available on official DVDs in pristine quality!). ...agreed - but they do have to turn them round very quickly sometimes and can't wait for Amazon to deliver the DVDs! Add to that, some BBC News people don't know their way round their own archive... |
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Post by John Wall on Dec 7, 2022 12:15:07 GMT
On the big screen in NFT1 it wasn’t too bad. With a bit of a clean up I reckon a lot of it would be pretty good on a TV screen at home.
Looking at the transmission dates I reckon I probably watched some of those at the time!
I’m feeling o-l-d…….
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Post by garygraham on Dec 7, 2022 13:58:55 GMT
Personally I'd love to do away with that most annoying phrase "Broadcast quality". It's completely moribund now. The biggest shows on TV are using thousands of awful pixelated clips taken from YouTube and no one gives a t os s. Why does it only apply to rare music related clips? Resign it to the wiped dustbin of history along with "Guilty Pleasure". Whenever someone dies these days, the BBC news includes clips from youtube (some of the footage used for their Jerry Lee Lewis "tribute" was almost unwatchable, yet that same footage is available on official DVDs in pristine quality!). A case in point...  |
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