wahiba wrote: so is my rather green standard 8 movie off the 405 line TV of the time the only recording of the BBCs moon landing transmission - well bits of it?
It could be, certainly as far as I know the BBC holds *nothing* of its own broadcast of the moon landings and is desperate to recover anything they can.
You're the type who would know as well as I do that clips of certain Doctor Who epsiodes that were wiped exist only as 8mm off-air filming...usually rather blue instead of green! Eg, they have the hugely important moments right before Hartnell's regeneration into Troughton only because of an 8mm film (the regeneration istelf is preserved because Blue Peter used in in 1973 and the Blue Peter show still exists).
Angus: "I retreived some open reel home VT's from a jumble sale in 1993 that had been stored dreadfully...revealed pristene recordings of the 1980 Wimbledon final and of Voyager 2 being launched."
Wow, sounds like you hit the jackpot at the flea market. Only once in a while, I score something special at such places.
Patrick wrote:Angus: "I retreived some open reel home VT's from a jumble sale in 1993 that had been stored dreadfully...revealed pristene recordings of the 1980 Wimbledon final and of Voyager 2 being launched."
Wow, sounds like you hit the jackpot at the flea market. Only once in a while, I score something special at such places.
I knew what format the tapes were in...what was even more strange was that two months later I found myself at the Notting Hill Music Exchange and they had a bunch of the 1/2 inch EIAJ machines on which to play the tapes. The staff had no idea if the machines worked so I picked up one for under £30...of course I had to lug the beast round the tube system but it was worth it!
Nothing on my tapes is a missing programme of course, but tapes just 3-5 years older could conceivably have missing material on them.
Eventually, Media companies will figure out a way to a monitor a computer's algorithmic playback waves and "match" visual and audio sequences being played to copyrighted films in their data base, and you'll be busted.
so is my rather green standard 8 movie off the 405 line TV of the time the only recording of the BBCs moon landing transmission - well bits of it?
