(18-07-2022, 08:11 AM)Neil Jones Wrote: I have an abject feeling "E J Hearn" is one of those who pinches other people's videos.  The description says "personal collection of old TV recordings, presentation from all the ITV regions from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and beyond".  There's a strong hint of editing to my mind - notice whenever you see "Tracking" its in the typical monospaced font, whereas when you see an on-screen graphic that doubles up as the timer and the audio source (Stereo or Mono) (see beginning of the video you embedded where it says "Play -1:35:50") its in an entirely different non monospaced font and looks to have been stuck on "top" of the scrambled resync.  In reality (or in my experience anyway) that wouldn't have been seen until the picture reset.  I've never had a video that has the ability to hold two fonts for its "presentation" and they are usually simple monospaced.

I'm not saying the whole channel is fabricated and it may be full of genuine gems that are actually from some video tapes out of an attic somewhere and that channel got around a lot back inn the day but... I suppose we can be thankful they haven't hacked 15 minutes of "oh God my ears!" music into it and presented the resulting fabrication as a genuine off-air recording.

(18-07-2022, 02:19 PM)Inspector Sands Wrote:

(18-07-2022, 08:11 AM)Neil Jones Wrote: I have an abject feeling "E J Hearn" is one of those who pinches other people's videos.  The description says "personal collection of old TV recordings, presentation from all the ITV regions from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and beyond".  There's a strong hint of editing to my mind - notice whenever you see "Tracking" its in the typical monospaced font, whereas when you see an on-screen graphic that doubles up as the timer and the audio source (Stereo or Mono) (see beginning of the video you embedded where it says "Play -1:35:50") its in an entirely different non monospaced font and looks to have been stuck on "top" of the scrambled resync.  In reality (or in my experience anyway) that wouldn't have been seen until the picture reset.  I've never had a video that has the ability to hold two fonts for its "presentation" and they are usually simple monospaced.

I'm not saying the whole channel is fabricated and it may be full of genuine gems that are actually from some video tapes out of an attic somewhere and that channel got around a lot back inn the day but... I suppose we can be thankful they haven't hacked 15 minutes of "oh God my ears!" music into it and presented the resulting fabrication as a genuine off-air recording.

It is a little odd. I can't quite make out what's going on with it. Very ong clips of very bad quality random VHS clips with no descriptions it's a tough watch. 

It's not just the constant in screen graphics but they seem to stutter and skip too, in a way that an analogue format doesn't. It's either deliberate, with accompanying on screen graphic, or it's a terrible capture

(18-07-2022, 04:24 PM)buster Wrote: Ed Hearn is/was a veteran of the tape swapping circuit in the 1990s and early internet communities, hence the dodgy quality of some of these clips.  I think all of us active at that point ended up getting a 9th generation dub of one of his compilations at some point so it's quite nostalgic to see them put online in much their original form, with no filtering for the online video sharing era!

(22-07-2022, 04:52 PM)W. Knight Wrote: Also from the same Youtube channel, “Sale of the Half Century” is on tonight in Angl-er, the Benny Hill Show. Kind of a foreshadowing with the flag!
https://youtu.be/y6imOBdYpeY

(22-07-2022, 11:49 PM)Neil Jones Wrote: Pretty sure I read somewhere it took years for the CBeebies brand to expand beyond the initial TV channel, somewhere around the time they started launching international versions of CBeebies, 2007?

CBeebies did eventually appear on Prime though, in 2006:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CgK5Pry9RU

This TV forum thread might be of interest too:
-https://tvforum.uk/tvhome/bbc-prime-bbc-entertainment-45401 

(19-04-2022, 07:56 AM)thegeek Wrote:

(01-04-2022, 04:31 PM)BBCMeridian Wrote: Never before seen clip of the full aftermath of confirmation of Princess Diana's death from BBC World in 1997.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvVBxhgd7r8

Cor, that's quite something to turn up. Some interesting points: 23m is where they go into proper obit mode (the script hasn't changed a lot over the years, has it?), followed by purple Astons which I guess was also part of the obit template, as I'm not sure I remember it from the World package of the time. Nick Higham, from 'another of our studios' looks a bit like he was the first reporter who could be dragged out of bed and into TVC, and the obit package voiced by Martyn Lewis suggests he might not have left the building between the late newsflashes and the early bulletins the next morning (Obviously it would be mostly in the can but these things are generally given one last polish before they go live). The YT comments point out that Nik Gowing changes studios while the obit is playing - indeed there's a bit of a jump on an otherwise stable recording, which may well be a non-sync cut as network changed sources?

(22-07-2022, 08:42 PM)Benriggers Wrote: Very unusual to see pre-school programmes like Balamory, Tweenies etc being introduced under the CBBC banner on BBC Prime. Did they not pick up the CBeebies branding till later?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-45OPUBahak