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Post by john anderson on Jul 17, 2009 18:08:22 GMT
just wondered what exists in the archives of look north with mike neville from 1970-1980.
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Post by Peter Kane on Jul 18, 2009 22:29:23 GMT
Yes, an excellent programme, with an amazing presenter.
Mike was the best!
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Post by Andy Howells on Jul 20, 2009 22:30:35 GMT
Yes, it was good, mind you I have equally good memories watching the ITV (Tyne Tees) equivillent Northern Life with Paul frost, saw some great clips on Youtube recently, so I'm expecting some copies exist in private collections on video tape.
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Post by Richard Bignell on Jul 21, 2009 7:57:28 GMT
just wondered what exists in the archives of look north with mike neville from 1970-1980. Quite a lot of Look North material is now housed at the Northern region Film & Television Archive. www.nrfta.org.uk/Richard |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2009 9:54:37 GMT
Very interesting. Are there any complete "as broadcast" editions surviving though, Richard? The website makes reference to the holdings being all inserts. I wondered if the BBC had any complete ones, in addition.
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Post by adriane17 on Jul 21, 2009 16:54:10 GMT
Presumably this is the case with all regional TV of any vintage i.e. there are very few complete editions of such programmes in the archives but merely inserts.
Post home video who knows what exists? I can't imagine anyone religiously recording Look East or About Anglia (the regional news programmes for the area I grew up in) daily but someone may well have done if they liked one of the presenters; the "weathergirl" or whoever. No doubt there are fans out there with complete archives of the like of Wendy Hurrell!
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Jul 22, 2009 10:59:59 GMT
....ah the Regional presenters of BBC and ITV programmes (gets all misty eyed....).
You never know, the likes of Hugh Scully, Fred Dinenage, Stuart Hall et al may have some recordings floating around....
O/T (I'm often O/T), but Mike Neville was partly the inspiration for Roger Mellie (Viz) - Mellie's middle names are Michael Neville.... still a legend though!
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Post by adriane17 on Jul 22, 2009 16:57:35 GMT
This sounds silly but does anyone remember Graham Dangerfield a long serving continuity announcer on Anglia TV who was once on Blue Peter demonstrating how he could speak backwards perfectly i.e. the emphasis was correct when the tape was played forwards.
The weatherman for many years - Michael Hunt (always Michael for obvious reasons...) - would judging by Matt Smith's outfit have made a perfect Doctor....
Katie Glass was pretty cool too in a fearsome way!
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Jul 23, 2009 8:22:56 GMT
I remember the demonstration, but I hadn't even heard of Graham Dangerfield til now...!
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Post by adriane17 on Jul 23, 2009 17:27:24 GMT
I'm pretty sure it was Graham Dangerfield (guy had a great deep voice; a fine head of hair and a beard) but I may be getting him mixed up with the TV vet - unless he also moonlighted as a continuity announcer. Can anyone confirm who it was?
Apologies for going completely off Look North!
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Jul 25, 2009 15:40:21 GMT
I'm pretty sure it was Graham Dangerfield (guy had a great deep voice; a fine head of hair and a beard) but I may be getting him mixed up with the TV vet - unless he also moonlighted as a continuity announcer. Can anyone confirm who it was? Apologies for going completely off Look North! 3rd time lucky : apparently my real name is regarded as a handle so my posts get deleted??? The man in question was Dick Graham, a continuity announcer on Anglia TV, and the BBC. He recited "Mary had a little lamb" backwards. |
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Post by Andy Howells on Jul 25, 2009 17:52:48 GMT
I wouldnt be surprised if people have recorded complete editions of news programmes in years gone by, I seem to remember a feature on Breakfast Time around a year after it started on BBC 1 with a guy who had recorded every single edition, I wonder if he has kept it up?
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Post by adriane17 on Jul 28, 2009 17:20:18 GMT
Dick Graham - yes it has come back!
Many thanks Dale!
Apropos off air recordings I recall that quite a while ago it emerged that someone had recorded many hours of Nationwide (on U-Matic I think) that the BBC otherwise wouldn't have.
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Post by Peter Kane on Jul 29, 2009 9:34:37 GMT
Would be great just to sit down and watch an entire 'Look North with Mike Neville' programme, from start to finish. To make it perfect, I would need to watch it around about the 6.00 / 6.30 in the evening timeslot, that it will have been on.
Seeing Mike on Look North when I returned home on visits to my parents, and when I eventually transferred back to Newcastle in the 1970s - was even more of a "Newcastle Welcome Home" than as you crossed the river into the Central Station on the train and saw your first glimpse of the Tyne Bridge.
Amazing guy, Mike . . . "Mr Newcastle" for me!!
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Post by Richard Moore on Aug 17, 2009 11:39:03 GMT
I spent a couple of weeks at Pebble Mill in about 1989/90 and sat in the control room during an edition of 'Midlands Today'. Even though the BBC were no longer routinely wiping things they still didn't (and doubt they do today) record and archive complete local news programs, although I believe inserts are all kept.
I asked if the program was being recorded and they said 'Someone might have a VHS running somewhere'. The only thing they did record religiously was the soundtrack to 1/4" tape just in case they needed to review something that was said in an interview or something. These were never kept for very long and re-used regularly.
If this was the same throughout the BBC I doubt there is very much studio material from any local news programs anywhere.
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