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Post by Stuart Huggett on Jul 31, 2008 7:38:42 GMT
Hi,
I'm just trying to gauge the level of interest there would be if I followed-up a couple of offers I've had on accessing off-screen photographs and cine footage of vintage British TV news broadcasts.
Photos - A friend of mine (a woman in her fifties) has been sorting through her late parents' belongings, and amongst her father's family photographs were a number of shots taken of what he perceived as notable events from the TV news. I said to her that I'd be interested in seeing them, so - unless she's disposed of them since - I should be able to, at least, borrow and scan them.
Cine footage - My partner's father (a retired librarian and historian) is a home-movie buff, and one of his earliest projects when he first had a camera was recording similar notable events from TV news broadcasts. He's also computer and internet savvy, so if he's not already compiled a list of his footage, I expect he'd be happy to engage in this project if we (his daughter & I) ask him to.
I stress that, from conversations with my friend and my partner, both men were only interested in creating a record of important social/political events: I'm sure that the earliest cine footage would be late 60's or possibly early 70's, whereas the photographs could pre-date that.
I've no reason at all to expect either man to have taken any similar photos or film of any other sort of broadcast (so no drama, serials, Variety etc), but if anyone here interested in the results of me finding out what news pictures & film they may have, please let me know.
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Post by Reg Long3 on Jul 31, 2008 22:16:47 GMT
Stu
Anybody years ago who decided to spend their time and money to make things available for future generations, ( that he/she was never going to know), should be acknowledged in some way or other IMHO, even if their stuff is valueless.
If he filmed news reports from the telly, then there is a good chance it still exists if the news item was popular. However if its studio interviews on news programmes then there is good chance it does not exist anywhere else.
For example some of the Apollo eleven studio reports are known to be missing.
If you could post a picture here and perhaps a couple items off the list I am sure somebody would pick up on it? others would simply enjoy it.
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Post by Koen Br on Jul 31, 2008 23:24:01 GMT
Even though any filmed reports are probably still in the archives, studio junctions between them (such as interviews, as pointed out above, or newsreaders introducing reports) are likely to be missing, as broadcasters generally didn't archive full news bulletins until the early eighties (BBC starts on domestic format in 1982, with recordings in broadcast quality were kept from 1983 onwards, IIRC - not sure about ITN stuff).
However, no matter what the archive status of these recordings is, people like us would of course be glad if you could provide us with some nice YouTube clips - from the seventies and later on, if he continued to build up the collection.
Did your father-in-law also record the sound of whatever he was filming off the telly?
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Post by Stuart Huggett on Feb 22, 2009 22:26:35 GMT
Just to bump this briefly:
The photos I referred to have probably been binned by now, I'm afraid. My friend says she passed a lot of her late father's photographs on to her son last year, for him to keep what he wanted and ditch the rest. If I hear anything further, I'll flag it up, but I suspect he won't have kept any off-screen pictures.
However, my partner's father popped round during the week: he is about to embark on a project of transferring his stack of cine films to dvd (by projecting them & re-filming with his video camera). These are mostly home movies, but, as my partner told me, he did use to film off-screen footage occasionally. He also revealed he has other reels of purchased cine film, some of which he's never viewed, including (apparently) what he believes are silent pop clips (labelled as such on the reels, at least). It's a long term project for him, but, again, I'll flag up what appears, if it falls under the areas of interest of these forums.
stu
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Post by Peter Stirling on Feb 26, 2009 11:54:58 GMT
Just to bump this briefly: The photos I referred to have probably been binned by now, I'm afraid. My friend says she passed a lot of her late father's photographs on to her son last year, for him to keep what he wanted and ditch the rest. If I hear anything further, I'll flag it up, but I suspect he won't have kept any off-screen pictures. However, my partner's father popped round during the week: he is about to embark on a project of transferring his stack of cine films to dvd (by projecting them & re-filming with his video camera). These are mostly home movies, but, as my partner told me, he did use to film off-screen footage occasionally. He also revealed he has other reels of purchased cine film, some of which he's never viewed, including (apparently) what he believes are silent pop clips (labelled as such on the reels, at least). It's a long term project for him, but, again, I'll flag up what appears, if it falls under the areas of interest of these forums. stu Stuart obviously you know your own finances and situation, but why not not have these films transfered properly at a facilities house for something like a couple of hundred pounds? Honestly! its a good investment . We are at last living in an age where technology can now do these films justice. These films have far more resolution and definition than a video camera pointed at projector screen can give them.Do you really want to watch flickering blobs ? |
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Post by Stuart Huggett on Feb 26, 2009 13:18:20 GMT
I take your point, but this is very much my girlfriend's Dad's project, mainly to take stock of his own home cine reels. I'm sure if he's not happy with the quality he achieves he'll get them done properly - he circulates home-made DVD-Rs of local events (past & present) amongst various community groups, and so has an interest in getting good quality versions for people to view.
I don't think he's intending on re-filming his off-screen stuff, or his old commercial cine footage purchases, with his video camera, but certainly if he realises he's got something of particular interest we'll try and encourage him to get it transferred professionally.
Like I say in my earlier posts, he did use to do a bit of off-screen filming, and has got some commercial cine reels labelled as containing other potentially interesting footage (not 'lost' footage, per se). As he is a historian/archivist/home video buff/music fan, there's no danger of this stuff getting chucked away, it's just a long-term project to check through it and get bits transferred to another medium.
But rest assured, I'll report back on anything of potential interest that appears. I can't guarantee anything will necessarily, I'm just keeping tabs on the project 'cos of the possibility.
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Post by garrettgilchrist on Mar 1, 2009 8:40:42 GMT
Just keep track, put it all on Youtube, and if there's something really interesting in there you can get it transferred properly.
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