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Post by Al Hine on Mar 20, 2023 16:26:24 GMT
Is the "Drive In Saturday" video available to watch anywhere?
Was it made by RCA or for Top Of The Pops by the usual suspects?
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Mar 20, 2023 20:32:23 GMT
Is the "Drive In Saturday" video available to watch anywhere? Was it made by RCA or for Top Of The Pops by the usual suspects? It hasn't surfaced yet. It was made by Caravel, per pro the BBC. Bowie and RCA had nothing to do with it. The Laughing Gnome has surfaced and assuredly does exist (points to DVD on shelf....) |
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Post by Mick A on Mar 21, 2023 19:19:51 GMT
A big thank you to all people involved in this, especially Roger Hill, Paul Vanezis and Ray Langstone. I for one would love to see some or all of these clips. Fingers crossed eh?  |
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Post by Thomas Walsh on Mar 22, 2023 8:39:45 GMT
Is there a list of all 28 clips available to peruse? 👍
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Post by stephenconnett on Mar 26, 2023 18:01:13 GMT
Just to be clear, can someone clarify if the Bowie/Caraval TOTP 19/04/1973 promo version of Drive In Saturday is one of the Super 8 films? Thanks
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Post by Paul Vanezis on Mar 27, 2023 8:47:32 GMT
It might just be me but i can't see why they don't just have a special night on BBC4 where they show them all. I thought budgets were tight at the Beeb and it presumably wouldn't cost much, plus some of the artists featured are still popular and remembered. Maybe they think there's not enough of us "boomers" left to justify it.  Actually, there is big interest in these from the BBC and record companies. I'm quite sure that they will be made use of. Paul |
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Post by Paul Vanezis on Mar 27, 2023 8:55:54 GMT
Just to be clear, can someone clarify if the Bowie/Caraval TOTP 19/04/1973 promo version of Drive In Saturday is one of the Super 8 films? Thanks There is a Bowie recording, but it's the 'Life on Mars' promo, screened July 13th 1973. Paul |
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Post by stephenconnett on Mar 27, 2023 14:45:57 GMT
Thanks Paul Vanezis for letting me know. Pity as I think the Life On Mars one is the official video that was around anyway, unless it's a caravel that I didn't know about?
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Post by Joe Haynes on Apr 3, 2023 12:49:53 GMT
Does anyone have a list of what was recorded? I can't seem to find much info
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Post by Paul Vanezis on Apr 3, 2023 15:37:23 GMT
Does anyone have a list of what was recorded? I can't seem to find much info The full list will be published as soon as I get the OK from the Radio Times. I think they are planning an announcement of all the recoveries so far quite soon. Paul |
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Post by Sue Butcher on Apr 17, 2023 13:32:23 GMT
I made some experimental Super8 tests with television pictures when I was a teenager, and the results were best at 18 frames per second. At 24 fps you got an obvious black bar rolling down the picture because the camera shutter was open less than 50% of the time, not enough to capture a whole video "field" (1/50th of a second duration in the UK and Australia). With 18 fps you were sure of getting a full picture on each frame of film, but not all the detail, just one field out of every two. (Two fields "interlaced" made a complete 625-line video picture.)
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Post by Bob Savage (robstar) on May 25, 2023 14:32:10 GMT
I see tomorrow the recovered T.Rex 20th Century Boy is getting a premier on YouTube. Its on the official Marc Bolan / T.Rex channel run by Demon Music.
I imagine The Groover will eventually get a showing here too!
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Post by Joe Haynes on May 26, 2023 17:24:03 GMT
Great to see that performance matched up with the HQ footage. Fingers crossed the list of performances recorded gets released soon.
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Post by Dan S on Jun 1, 2023 14:38:44 GMT
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Post by Peter Stirling on Jun 1, 2023 18:39:39 GMT
Think that is where they suppressed the black bars ie. the film frame was not synchronized with the television frame. |
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