Post by Troy Walters on Jan 3, 2004 5:19:37 GMT
Speaking of Aunty Jack, I happen to know someone up north of Sydney who has a two VTRs with some tapes which one of the tapes happens to have an Aunty Jack episode on it. I'm planning on buying the VTRs and the reels from him, however I'm having trouble contacting him and he's been extremely busy to organise the packing and shipping. Anyhow I did successfully bought a Grundig SVR-4004 VCR machine from him last year, but I'll have to rattle his cage to get those VTRs and tapes from him.
Anyhow speaking of Aussie shows, Australian archives are worse when it comes to wiping archive material than BBC. For example the old Channel 6 archive in Ballarat was poorly treating and wiping and throwing out tapes even in recent years, my mate whom has visited that archive said that tapes were stored in the engine room, can you believe that???
ABC are a little more nicer these days with archive material, they are wanting their lost shows back as I've sent them some bootleg VHS tapes of lost Countdown footage, an almost complete episode from 16/7/78 and some bits of footage from October/November 1975 transferred off B&W reel-reel tape. These were poor quality copies over the 5th generation mark as I've got them copied from someone who got them copied from someone etc... I also got a real poor quality copy of a 1976 Weekend Magazine Countdown segment which showed excerpts of JPY performing "Yesterday's Hero" on Countdown 16/3/75 which the girls rip his shirt off and excerpts from the 50th show which aired 7/12/75 hosted by Daryl Braithwaite and Shirley Strachan. Anyhow ABC are gonna probably want a copy of this too.
One place that really takes interest in preservation of Australian archive material including late 19th century film stock is The National Film & Sound Archives in Canberra.
Anyways I'm a vintage video collector hoping to recover old shows from pre-1980s on early video formats especially Countdown as some of you's already know it's my favourite Aussie pop show. I look at all early video formats from EIAJ reel-reel to Philips VCR to National Colour Cartridge to Umatic and other formats. I've built up a large collection of Philips VCR cassettes long play and standard play with recordings dating as early as 1975 up to 1984 though some tapes I've found 90s recordings of worthless common-as-crap overrated movies like "Under Siege". I also have some Umatic tapes and reel-reels too.
Anyhow to finish off it seems that BBC archives are more enthusiastic with restoring their archive material than any archive in Australia. They do more than just get the material back they even go to extensive lengths to spruce up their kinescope films with the recently developed program VidFIRE to make the films look like fluid moving videos and even detecting colour subcarrier on B&W kinescope films that the shows initially went out live in colour.
Cheers
Troy
Anyhow speaking of Aussie shows, Australian archives are worse when it comes to wiping archive material than BBC. For example the old Channel 6 archive in Ballarat was poorly treating and wiping and throwing out tapes even in recent years, my mate whom has visited that archive said that tapes were stored in the engine room, can you believe that???
ABC are a little more nicer these days with archive material, they are wanting their lost shows back as I've sent them some bootleg VHS tapes of lost Countdown footage, an almost complete episode from 16/7/78 and some bits of footage from October/November 1975 transferred off B&W reel-reel tape. These were poor quality copies over the 5th generation mark as I've got them copied from someone who got them copied from someone etc... I also got a real poor quality copy of a 1976 Weekend Magazine Countdown segment which showed excerpts of JPY performing "Yesterday's Hero" on Countdown 16/3/75 which the girls rip his shirt off and excerpts from the 50th show which aired 7/12/75 hosted by Daryl Braithwaite and Shirley Strachan. Anyhow ABC are gonna probably want a copy of this too.
One place that really takes interest in preservation of Australian archive material including late 19th century film stock is The National Film & Sound Archives in Canberra.
Anyways I'm a vintage video collector hoping to recover old shows from pre-1980s on early video formats especially Countdown as some of you's already know it's my favourite Aussie pop show. I look at all early video formats from EIAJ reel-reel to Philips VCR to National Colour Cartridge to Umatic and other formats. I've built up a large collection of Philips VCR cassettes long play and standard play with recordings dating as early as 1975 up to 1984 though some tapes I've found 90s recordings of worthless common-as-crap overrated movies like "Under Siege". I also have some Umatic tapes and reel-reels too.
Anyhow to finish off it seems that BBC archives are more enthusiastic with restoring their archive material than any archive in Australia. They do more than just get the material back they even go to extensive lengths to spruce up their kinescope films with the recently developed program VidFIRE to make the films look like fluid moving videos and even detecting colour subcarrier on B&W kinescope films that the shows initially went out live in colour.
Cheers
Troy