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Post by Del Boy on Nov 12, 2016 19:36:05 GMT
Just left it and it was a good event indeed..
We spotted a few Sweeney faces in the programming which needs to be reported in the appropriate thread.
The Till Death Do Us Part episode was a great watch as was a 60's
Don't Adjust Your Set episode featuring a very young David Jason.
The guests were good to listen to also (Dick Fiddy et al))
Also personally I love all the old continuity links and adverts, brilliant.
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Post by Vienna on Nov 13, 2016 10:18:31 GMT
Hope you are enjoying the event lads. At least you've escaped the bloody London rain for the day! Gene. Yes, escaped the rain but sweltered as the heating was on full blast in the viewing room.  However, it was a very interesting and enjoyable day, Gene  Report to come later... Vi |
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Post by Windy Miller on Nov 13, 2016 10:23:35 GMT
Del Boy, Vienna and myself joined around 150 others to enjoy a spectacular day on Birmingham University’s campus. The venue houses a very modern cinema or videotheque, that provided an impressive opportunity to view pieces of tv previously thought to be missing or wiped on a huge screen.
I particularly enjoyed the clips from Swap Shop, Colour Me Pop, Till Death Us Do Part, and The Avengers. There was a bizarre promo from the cast of Coronation Street in an attempt to sell a story of the lives of Annie Walker, Ena Sharples, Elsie Tanner, Stan and Hilda Ogden, and Bet Lynch to the American market. Heaven knows what they would have thought of old Albert Tatlock.
The Martin Loach Collection included all sorts – adverts, The Frost Show, Tomorrow’s World, and we had a demo on how to recover the teletext data from VHS video tapes. Dick Fiddy from the BFI discussed the work his organization does and contributes to restoring film previously thought to be missing.
The event was hosted by Tim Disney, with Chris Perry providing the guest and film introductions.
The day flew in for us, and was rounded off in a traditional manner with a few pints before heading to New Street Station for trains home.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 13, 2016 16:30:23 GMT
Interesting about recovering teletext pages from VHS tapes. I don't know if it works on tv's today but back in the 90's I remember pressing the text button whilst watching videos recorded from tv & you could sometimes ( not always ) see very scrambled teletext pages from the day/time you made the recording. If you pressed 888 you could see bits of subtitles. First time I noticed it I thought the tv was haunted.
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Post by Windy Miller on Nov 13, 2016 17:15:33 GMT
Interesting about recovering teletext pages from VHS tapes. I don't know if it works on tv's today but back in the 90's I remember pressing the text button whilst watching videos recorded from tv & you could sometimes ( not always ) see very scrambled teletext pages from the day/time you made the recording. If you pressed 888 you could see bits of subtitles. First time I noticed it I thought the tv was haunted. I thought the bit on teletext would be a bit dull, but it was quite the opposite. A guy called Jason Robertson gave a very intelligent presentation, showing how teletext worked and how he recovers the pages. You're right Arthur that you used to get a scrambled incomplete page with backward facing "?"'s, "!"'s, and multiple "$" signs. The software Jason uses corrects all that, although he still makes a final proof read of the pages before the recovery is complete. Jason showed us how over time from 1976, teletext evolved. Although the teletext pages became more colourful and better laid out, the news content didn't seem to change much over the years, "Tube Drivers On Strike" being a recurring headline. |
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 13, 2016 17:39:23 GMT
I was sad to see teletext go but then tv lost much of its charm when deregulation & 24 hr tv came in.
I didn't know until I saw them as prizes on 'Bullseye' that there were tv's that could print off hard copies of teletext pages.
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Post by Peter Picard on Nov 13, 2016 20:00:01 GMT
TV's printing copies of teletext pages is something i've never heard of, bet they cost a fortune.
Sounds like it was a good event well worth attending from the reports posted, and good to hear that so many people turned up to support it.
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Post by Vienna on Nov 13, 2016 20:26:24 GMT
Well, as Windy says above, we met Del Boy in Birmingham and walked the short journey from New Street Station to the University for the main event. And an interesting day it was - if you like that kind of thing!  There was a good turn out and we entered a room with a large screen/cinema and waited for Chris Perry to introduce us to the day ahead, then Tim Disney went through the scheduled archive TV to be shown. Most of the missing material was from the late Sixties such as the very funny Don't Adjust Your Set' featuring a young David Jason, along with several of the Monty Python team. There were clips of The Frost Show, Tomorrows World and ads from the time, which certainly look dated now. Also an episode of The Bachelors TV show and clips from Swap Shop and Colour Me Pop were screened. The highlights for me were the rediscovered episodes of Till Death Us Do Part (very non PC) and the 1961 Avengers episode featuring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee (the story and the acting was pretty awful apart from the main two characters!). It was introduced by Ian Hendry's nephew. I also enjoyed The Coronation Street promo even if it was a bit strange - what the Americans thought of it I don't know!  Before a break for lunch Dick Fiddy from the BFI talked about the difficulties getting archive TV released onto DVD etc. Particularly the problems encountered with various parties involved such as background music playing and the fact that often there isn't enough demand for a company to make a profit from it all. He did mention Network DVD as generally doing a good job though. A guy called Jason Robertson also went through a demonstration of how teletext pages can be recovered and we saw an Oracle demonstration film from 1975. In the afternoon we watched a a Late Night Horror episode and a TV announcer (I can't remember his name) talked about working on Rediffusion in the '60s and on Anglia and ATV and the BBC in the '70s. After a short break around 5.00pm we decided to leave a bit early as it was hot in there... then went for a much needed pint or two before heading home on the train I would recommend going to a Kaleidoscope event. This one was free with just a donation to the RNLI expected on the day. Vi |
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Nov 13, 2016 20:43:30 GMT
Sounds an interesting day! :-)
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 13, 2016 21:11:40 GMT
TV's printing copies of teletext pages is something i've never heard of, bet they cost a fortune. Found a Dutch site that has a few photos of one made by Philips, pretty sure this was the same model featured on Bullseye. www.marcelstvmuseum.com/photoalbum49.html |
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