Recreating Early Colour Outside Broadcast
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Published 2018-06-04
As part of the ADAPT research project into the history of television production technology (www.adapttvhistory.org.uk/), a reunited team of veteran camera operators, directors and engineers recreated an outside broadcast recording using North 3, a restored Type II colour mobile control room.
This video shows how TV was made and how it looked to viewers at home watching colour TV at home for the first time in 1967.
Producer: Amanda Murphy. Editors: Lisa Forrest, Dominic Clarke for ADAPT.
Veteran participants:
Director: Geoff Wilson. Engineering Manager: Ron Clare. Vision Supervisors: Roger Neale, John Coupe. Vision Engineers: Bill Baldock, Peter Foster. Cameras: Dave Taylor, Robin Sutherland, Rex Palmer. Lighting Director: Steve Harris, VT: Ian Rutter. Sound Supervisor: Doug Whitaker. Sound Assistants: Ken Osbourn, Dave Howard. PA: Jane Whitmore. Chief Rigger: Bob Parry. Additional help: Steve Jones, Brian Summers.
All Comments (21)
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hope there’s a longer version or the full program of this, i would love to see it.
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Oh how this brings back memories! My early days in broadcasting here is the US were very similar. I kept a three camera kit (NTSC of course) functional through the early 80s and always enjoyed showing the young ones how it all worked when actual magic was a requirement!
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Lovely stuff. Many moons ago I had an Ikegami three tube camera with viewfinder and 10:1 lens to set up and fiddle with. As well as CCU connectors, it had (PAL) video out, which simplified things somewhat! Now almost everyone has an HD camera in their hands.
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This is absolutely brilliant! To resurrect a remote kit as you did was awesome. Would love to see something like this here in the states. Great job!
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Great program - thank you !
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Fascinating. And how lovely to see an old BBC OB truck.
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I can't be the only one who goes for this stuff. Let's see some more of it fellas.
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awesome, good to see the old studer getting an outing , I still service and repair reel to reel machines for a living so this kinda stuff is right up my alley ...loved it thanks .
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The golden age of British TV. It is amazing how much effort was required to get up-to-spec content out of this analogue kit. Lots of coaxing and so many potential failure modes.
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This is fantastic. I would have loved to see this demonstration live
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What a gorgeous little peice of history.
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That was wonderful, truly fascinating!
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An OLD 1 inch ? They were the new machines ! Give me an AVR2 for OBs, its capstan worked ! An Ampex VR2000 for the studio stuff though, we need quality for that. AVR2 good enough for Sport though.
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That is absolutely incredible, thank you oh so much.
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I would love to see the full program that was made :)
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Wow, what a gem.
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Absolutely fantastic, congratulations and thanks for posting, I still have my TX98 key .
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this is awesome!
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As I travelled around BBC studios in the 1980s I always hoped I'd encounter the EMI 2001 - but I only found 2005s (in Manchester, Norwich and Plymouth). At least the one here still has it's 'BBCtv Colour' signs in place!
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You never forget how to do something, you just momentarily pause.
