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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 22, 2021 22:59:17 GMT
Not youtube but a site hosting archive news clips from the Central region.
Here's one item that even for 1983 seems a bit off colour. At one point the interviewer tells a woman that she could do with losing some weight-
Zoos have changed since 1982, here a chimp is given sherry to drink & a cigar to smoke
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Post by Sparky on May 23, 2021 8:07:27 GMT
Not youtube but a site hosting archive news clips from the Central region.
Here's one item that even for 1983 seems a bit off colour. At one point the interviewer tells a woman that she could do with losing some weight-
Zoos have changed since 1982, here a chimp is given sherry to drink & a cigar to smoke
That's MACE; who pretty much saved the ATV and Central regional archive before Carlton dumped it all in the skip. It was set up by two film librarians from Central TV. They had a base in the old Nottingham studios until around 2008, then it was moved to a space at the University of Leicester. It moved again around 2011 to the University of Lincoln.
They have quite a bit digitized and online for previewing, and are still at it.
Similar things were set up in Yorkshire, Anglia and Southwest area.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 23, 2021 21:28:35 GMT
I found this clip very funny, a study into beer raising estrogen levels prompted this reporter to ask pub locals some predictably ludicrous questions-
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Post by Sparky on May 26, 2021 19:18:34 GMT
I found this clip very funny, a study into beer raising estrogen levels prompted this reporter to ask pub locals some predictably ludicrous questions-
The reporter, the late John Swallow was a broadcasting legend - and very well known in the Midlands on ATV and Central. He mentored Chris Tarrant when he started at ATV in 1972 - and they did a heck of a lot of reports and daft stuff together. Much of it involved pubs.
John took ill in the 2000s, was confined to a wheelchair - and kept away from any TV cameras.
He was asked if he wanted to do an interview for ITV50, sadly he turned the offer down as he was too ill. He passed away shortly after.
I have two very fond memories of John Swallows work - one was a report where he interviewed a Birmingham Council official who wanted to ban eating food on buses. Mid way through the interview on a travelling bus, he rang the bell and a waiter came up the stairs with a silver service lunch - and totally p*ssed the council official off.
The other - was at Henley Regatta with Chris Tarrant, where they tried to gatecrash a Private Members bar and did nothing but annoy the Aristocracy.
Swallow was also instrumental, along with another ATV Reporter - Peter Matthews on Tiswas and also Produced/Advised on Jaywalking.
Here's the bus trip
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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 26, 2021 20:41:37 GMT
He reminds me a bit of Ray Gosling. I'm with the woman though, I don't like seeing people eat/drink in public except ice creams/lollies, picnics & maybe at the seaside ( eg. chips, jellied eels ). Dead common In particular I can't stand the stink when people drink cans of lager on a train
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Post by Sparky on May 27, 2021 6:12:35 GMT
He reminds me a bit of Ray Gosling. I'm with the woman though, I don't like seeing people eat/drink in public except ice creams/lollies, picnics & maybe at the seaside ( eg. chips, jellied eels ). Dead common In particular I can't stand the stink when people drink cans of lager on a train I am kind of with the women too; I hate getting on public transport to find I have to clear up 1/2 a ton of empty cheap lager cans, crushed crisps, or the smell of yesterdays McDonalds crappy meal.
Thing is, back when that report was made - in 1972; we still allowed smoking (upstairs) on Buses and had smoking carriages on trains. As a kid - I used to dread having to walk through such carriages, or be forced to sit upstairs. If it wasn't the smell from clouds of nicotine filled smoke, it was the smell of 3 day old fag ends everywhere.
Ironically, these days, the air is filled with the sweet, sickly smell with E-Cigs. Errgh.
Wasn't there some daft idea, that on single deck coaches - if you wanted to smoke, you sat at the back?
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Post by Cartman on May 27, 2021 7:13:36 GMT
Funnily enough, I always used to go upstairs on the bus, my favourite seat was at the front over the drivers cab.
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Post by Sparky on May 27, 2021 16:51:08 GMT
Funnily enough, I always used to go upstairs on the bus, my favourite seat was at the front over the drivers cab. We'd only do that if it was empty!
On the trains, we used to try and jump in the front seats directly behind the driver on the old DMU's - there were windows looking into the cab and you got a drivers view of the line ahead.
They were the only trains I had seen that had gears on like a car too.
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Post by Cartman on May 27, 2021 19:30:50 GMT
DMUs were semi auto, there was a gear change but no clutch, it was a Wilson epicyclic gearbox. A few had fully automatic hydraulic transmission.
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Post by Sparky on May 27, 2021 19:48:38 GMT
DMUs were semi auto, there was a gear change but no clutch, it was a Wilson epicyclic gearbox. A few had fully automatic hydraulic transmission. Didn't some buses have Epicyclic gearboxes - with a small gearshift knob on the side of the dashboard or something?
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