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JA
james-2001
ITV Nightscreen from May 1998, which includes a profile of Murray:

LL
Larry the Loafer
Nothing too special about this clip of a YTV junction into The Brian Conley Show (...never heard of him) but I thought it might amuse some people to see a little nod to Channel 4's "tapping" campaign at the start as part of a trailer for You've Been Framed.



The real thing for the uninitiated (from 14:16 if it doesn't jump to it)

JA
james-2001
I'd forgotten how horribly dated those YTV slides from that era are, they look like something from a decade earlier.
BE
benriggers
Not Youtube (but no point creating a new thread for this) but a fascinating clip from Did You See? looking behind the scenes at the BBC's Network Television Presentation Dept.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p099tsyp
Last edited by benriggers on 16 March 2021 9:51pm
JA
james-2001
This clip's been posted several times on here the last couple of weeks, albeit from low quality multi-gen VHS (we commented on how much smoking there was, which would have been impossible to imagine in that sort of setting only a few years after this was made)- good to see it in high quality though- I almost wonder if they were prompted to post it from the postings on here.
WH
what
Not sure if this has been posted here before, but a fascinating watch nonetheless. The dedication of NBC affiliate WRC-TV's new colour studios by President Eisenhower in 1958; footage thought to be the oldest surviving colour videotape recording in the world.

DE88 and paul_hadley gave kudos
JA
james-2001
Him pressing that button to supposedly switch the picture into colour reminds me of the footage of the launch of colour TV in Germany, where they also had a similar button pressed by Willy Brandt... only the engineers actually flipping the switch did so a split second before he actually pressed the button.

I wonder if those colour bars at the start are original, was the technology to generate them around in 1958, or were they added to a later transfer of the tape?
MM
MMcG198
Not Youtube (but no point creating a new thread for this) but a fascinating clip from Did You See? looking behind the scenes at the BBC's Network Television Presentation Dept.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p099tsyp


Amazing the difference it makes seeing that clip in such good quality. I've only ever seen it on VHS copies, which weren't VHS at its best shall we say.
SD
sda|
Excellent find! There's all sorts of good clips and programmes on there, including this, The Birth of Television from 1976

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04cbmr1
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
The day Alexander Armstrong was a pointless answer on, um, Pointless Very Happy
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Not Youtube (but no point creating a new thread for this) but a fascinating clip from Did You See? looking behind the scenes at the BBC's Network Television Presentation Dept.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p099tsyp


Amazing the difference it makes seeing that clip in such good quality. I've only ever seen it on VHS copies, which weren't VHS at its best shall we say.


And in this quality you can read the dymo labels on the Con mixer showing "CLOCK CAMERA" and "NODDY" as separate sources, which pretty much confirms this
Last edited by Steve in Pudsey on 17 March 2021 7:47pm
JA
james-2001
The fact it says "Noddy" as well shows that the NODD acronym that was going around for a while (I think it's still on TV Ark!) that some people insisted was the proper name is nonsense.

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