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Post by Richard Marple on Mar 7, 2012 13:02:14 GMT
I wonder if someone did an off-air audio recording.
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Post by Rich Cornock on Mar 7, 2012 13:20:55 GMT
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'I doubt it. At about £600 in 1975 money to buy a VCR it would have been beyond the budget of most students.'
i think its possible that some students would have access to vcr's at the universities. i certainly did when i was there and was able to use kit way above anything i could afford. Also i imagine some parents would have recorded the show if their children were on it. i wasn't implying that the students themselves would own vcrs, rather that with the number of people featured on it that some would have found a way of making a copy of the particular show they were on.
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Post by Brian Denton on Mar 7, 2012 19:15:41 GMT
i imagine quite a few of these may exist as off airs in the hands of the people who took part My friend appeared on it in 1977 and I'm fairly sure he kept an audio recording.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Mar 8, 2012 8:43:39 GMT
I hadn't even looked for this one at all.
Lostshows.com says it exists in ful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by kieranc on Mar 10, 2012 7:38:31 GMT
I hadn't even looked for this one at all. Lostshows.com says it exists in ful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps that refers to the BBC revival? ITN source lists 161 ITV episodes: 10 from the sixties, 9 from the seventies and 142 from the eighties.
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Post by Brian Denton on Mar 10, 2012 11:18:12 GMT
I hadn't even looked for this one at all. Lostshows.com says it exists in ful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps that refers to the BBC revival? ITN source lists 161 ITV episodes: 10 from the sixties, 9 from the seventies and 142 from the eighties. How amazingly, preternaturally, fortunate it was that the Stephen Fry appearance survived !
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Post by Richard Marple on Mar 10, 2012 12:05:31 GMT
Another "before they were famous" appearence on UC has survived, I can remember who but it's someone in politics or current affairs.
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Post by Michel van Dyke on Mar 10, 2012 14:54:17 GMT
You forget that people who worked in the TV world, had a VCR recorder available for work or home. Some technology people experiments with a VCR recorder. TV presenters taped sometime there own programme on VCR. It may be in the archives have not been preserved, but maybe it's still in their own archive. The last week I found an example of a VCR tape with the introduction of Video 80 presented by Peter Gilmore (The Onedin Line). This for a room with students and scientists. I think around mid 1970´s.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Mar 10, 2012 17:07:05 GMT
i think its possible that some students would have access to vcr's at the universities. i certainly did when i was there and was able to use kit way above anything i could afford. That's a very good point. My secondary school had a video recorder in 1974 and I remember Brighton Poly had already quite an impressive collection of off-airs by the end of the 70's (albeit on some obscure format). I've wondered before how much interesting material is languishing in college storerooms. I'm sure there must be a more than evens chance that a university appearing on UC would have recorded the programme if they had the technology. Bing bong, paging Mr. Langstone: Any idea what the potential is in college libraries etc...?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2012 18:35:07 GMT
When I was at College in 1972 / 73, we had the use of a Sony b/w reel to reel in our course work. I revisited the place in the early '90s and they still had an AV dept. with lots of Philips and other format off-airs going back to the '70s (schools / educational progs etc.). Nothing particularly rare at the time but I know others have had the same experience. Educational establishments have a habit of hoarding everything under the sun so I would think there are plenty of other such places sitting on potentially rare material out there.
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Post by Richard Marple on Mar 11, 2012 17:47:24 GMT
I remember someone on MHP / TBS mentioning checking schools & colleges for rare programming, though some can be a bit fussy about copyright issues.
Did some of the American college archives start from collecting programmes for educational purposes?
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Post by Ian Wegg on Mar 13, 2012 7:49:45 GMT
Worth noting, btw, that this year's Manchester team have taken it far more seriously. They are in the final next week.
~iw
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Mar 15, 2012 2:59:26 GMT
Worth noting, btw, that this year's Manchester team have taken it far more seriously. They are in the final next week. ~iw Southampton, Langstone.... At the moment a search of many academic institution's holdings and the NAEA has found nothing....the search continues....
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Post by adamjordan on Mar 16, 2012 20:33:08 GMT
Another "before they were famous" appearence on UC has survived, I can remember who but it's someone in politics or current affairs. Clive James? I was pretty sure this clip didn't exist when the question was asked. If it did, we would have seen it dozens of times. How many times do they roll out Stephen Fry getting his question wrong?
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Post by markboulton on Mar 16, 2012 20:45:22 GMT
I'm pretty sure Richard was thinking of David Mellor.
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