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Post by William Martin on Jun 30, 2004 15:02:22 GMT
I recently shopped at E-bay and I managed to purchase two DVDs. One was from 1975-77, and it features adverts, captions slides for Man About The House (Summer 75), Goldfinger (Oct 76), Thunderball (Feb 77) and You Only Live Twice (Nov 77), trailers for Armchair Thiller, Thames (Sept/Oct 77 & Apr 1979), LWT (Feb 77, Nov 77), and London Weekend continuity from 1977. The second and Southern Continuity from Xmas 1977, Xmas 1979, LWT/Thames continuity from 1980 and 1978 plus ITV Autumn Trailer. I also manage to purchase from a friend, ITV Schools and colleges tape from 1976-1977. It features Thames continuity from 1976 by Christopher Robbie and some unknown person, LWT continuity from 1977, 1978 & 1979 and Thames continuity from 1977, 1979 & 1981. nice one , you are probably the only person in the world with that continuity, nice feeling isn't it. (did you mean video?)
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Post by William Martin on Jun 30, 2004 15:08:43 GMT
Nope, and to be honest I thought the whole idea of re-combining colour from a VHS with a B&W TR + Vidfiring would have been far too costly for purely a 10 minute B.P. feature. The episode in question was pretty much run of the mill, nothing which would have justified any major recovery work considering the film inserts still survive. strange that they gave the distinct impression that the TR had been used, matching/rescaling the images/colour, et.c unless that was what they had intended to do, still as you say it wouldn't have been worth it. Scary though that the beeb had wiped a 1980 episode, doesn't anyone check anything? re the adamant episode, does this mean that since the beeb has things they thought they didn't , they don't have things they thought they did, just becuase its listed as in the archive doesn't mean it is.
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Post by andrew martin on Jun 30, 2004 15:48:06 GMT
Re Adamant - in theory yes, if somethin turns out to be something other than what it is supposed to be, there is a chance the listed thing will therefore be missing. However, without having a handy statistic to hand, I would guess the vast majority of BBC film material doesn't exist as just one copy. Eg the "Adam Adamant" came to light because there were two fine grain prints logged against another episode, and of the smattering other programmes that have turned up in the last few years, none have been at the expense of 'losing' another programme - the negative of a programme called "People to Watch" turned out to be the negative of a missing "Late Night Line-Up", but there was still a print existing for the "People to Watch" (the mix up must have occurred in the 60s, as the LNLU was supposed to have been junked then).
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Post by William Martin on Jul 3, 2004 13:24:55 GMT
thanks for the info, well that's not so bad then, it would be a shame if missfilling descoveries were at the expense of other episodes.
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Post by GarethR on Jul 4, 2004 8:44:40 GMT
Paul,
Have you considered offering the News At Ten to ITN? They hold very few complete bulletins - mainly it's just the insert films - although I would guess there's a fair chance that they would have one as significant as this.
FWIW, I just returned an N1500 off-air of a BBC-1 early evening news from May 1976 to Windmill Road. It's in pretty nice nick and includes the end of children's programmes, the local opt for Look East before the news, and then the weather and the first 6-7 minutes of Nationwide with Look East afterward.
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Post by Paul vanezis on Jul 4, 2004 23:59:27 GMT
Don't suppose you have a contact Gareth? And can you transfer N1500? I have one or two I need to do...
Cheers,
Paul
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Post by Mark Boulton on Jul 26, 2004 18:47:33 GMT
In 1994 I bought a V2000 machine for £5 along with two tapes - both of which contained stuff taped from YTV in 1993 However I had previously been given two tapes by somebody else who knew I was "into video recorders". They contained BBC and Granada/C4 continuity from 1983-4, and were fascinating viewing. Stupidly however, I cleaned the heads and didn't allow the cleaning fluid to dry, put the tape back in which promptly wrapped itself around the head drum, and snapped one of the heads clean out.
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