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Post by Paul Cooksley on May 26, 2004 18:42:37 GMT
Hi there
I was wonderinf if anyone can shed any more light on the clip of 'The Move' used on TOTP2 ronight (Weds 26th). The clip in question was 'California Man' dating from June 1972.
The on screen aston said that this clip has only recently "been returned to the TOTP archive" - does anyone know any more about where this clip was found/what format it exists on? I presume this is obviously it's first outing on TOTP2 as I have never seen this before.
Don't know if it's just me, but it looked like one of the primary colours was missing from the vt - looked like it was in shades of blue/green - the colour didn't look right.
Does anyone know any more about this?
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Post by Ian West on May 26, 2004 19:12:41 GMT
I think from memory the whole episode this clip survives from only exists in faded colour. It's been discussed here in the past, anyway - someone else could no doubt tell you more about it than me. Nice to finally see it, anyway  |
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Post by KevMulrennan on May 26, 2004 21:28:32 GMT
Two 1972 TOTP tapes were found in 1999 by BBC Scotland.
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Post by pete on May 26, 2004 21:42:46 GMT
and wernt just returned recently either they were in 1999.
the tape has lost some of the colour though its still there, very muddy though
TOP OF THE POPS 22/06/72 (Incomplete, from BBC Scotland)
Introduced by Ed Stewart (start clipped)
Sweet - Little willy (Disc)<< missing from this edition
Gary Glitter - Rock and roll part 2 (Studio)<< missing from this edition
Elvis Presley - American trilogy (Caravel film)
Argent - Tragedy (Studio)
Free - Little bit of love (Disc/Pans People)
New Seekers - Circles (Studio)
Dana - Crossword puzzles (Studio)
Move - California man (Studio)
Don MacLean - Vincent (Promo)
B Bumble & The Stingers - Nut rocker (Disc/Crowd/Credits)
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Post by Paul Cooksley on May 27, 2004 7:41:11 GMT
..thanks for the info Pete.
I am intrigued by what "disc" means (apart from the obvious!) as mentioned in your post and indeed on the BBC TOTP database?
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Post by Jim Schwartau on May 27, 2004 9:51:52 GMT
"Disc" means the commercial record was played, usually under shots of the studio audience dancing.
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Post by marky on May 27, 2004 12:39:10 GMT
At that time, they play the disc with the audience dancing and then you see the usual top 30 chart rundown on a big screen
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Post by Paul Cooksley on May 27, 2004 17:47:05 GMT
..thanks for the info.
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Post by Westy 2 on May 27, 2004 18:48:55 GMT
Wasn't too bad IMO !
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Post by Ian West on May 28, 2004 6:47:08 GMT
The colour? Yeah, given what I'd heard in advance about the state of the clip, it was a pleasant surprise. I was a bit surprised the BBC didn't convert it to black and white for TOTP2 - not because it would've looked any better, but because the colour wasn't up to usual broadcast standards for archive material. But I'm glad they showed it as-is. I did do a capture of the broadcast and tried playing with the colour correction setings on my PC (using TMPGEnc) but I couldn't get it looking much better than it did to begin with, so I gave up. |
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Post by William Martin on May 29, 2004 13:35:57 GMT
try a light magenta wash
just looking at the database and there isn't much from 72 . good job the 2nd xmass special exists.
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