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BBC Election Replay - 1970 and 1974

1974 on Friday 3 October (September 2003)

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SD
sda|
Some lovely B&W reports from the Midlands popping up, and a very interesting programme altogether!
KA
Katherine Founding member
"I have been a True Blue Conservative all my life, I am 92 years old..." - CLASS!!
JB
JB
"I do not need opinion polls, my own opinions are good enough for me thankyou very much" Laughing
SD
sda|
State of the art displays!

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No Change At Epsom
RE
Re-it-er-ate
I do have to say this is making wonderful viewing. It would be a lot better if it was Fullscreen, In fact, I'd rather have BBC Three in reduced size, and Parliament in full screen.
KA
Katherine Founding member
Why does the tape/whatever of the coverage keep going odd? The sound goes all wobbly and the picture keeps 'tuning out' for a bit and then jerkily resumes normality....
JE
Jenny Founding member
14:9? Cretins...
NE
newsbeat
I watched snippets today, and I quite enjoyed it actually! Very interesting to see how they done it back in '70. I response to some enquiring how much of the programme is in colour, well most of it seems to be, during the bit I watched only the live link to BBC Plymouth was in B&W.
Very odd beginning or something, computer style text come over the screen saying something like this:

BBC1...BBC1...BBC1...BBC1...BBC1...BBC1...

Election 70

Results, flashes, interviews and analysis

BBC1...BBC1...BBC1...BBC1...BBC1...BBC1...

Was this some sort of 1970 EPG??!
MA
marksi
Jenny said
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14:9? Cretins...


What are you on about now you silly cow? It was transmitted 12P16.
DA
Dan Founding member
Jenny posted:
14:9? Cretins...


Shouldn't you be watching CBeebies?
JE
Jenny Founding member
marksi posted:
Jenny said
Quote:
14:9? Cretins...


What are you on about now you silly cow? It was transmitted 12P16.


In that case there is a fault somewhere on the system. I'm definitely getting a "floating" Parliament DOG, so it can't be NTL screwing up.
TT
Thomas TV
Quote:
I think 1970 was the first UK General Election televised after BBC One went colour in 1969 (BBC Two launched a proper colour service in the UK in 1967) Whether the election was covered in colour, B&W or a mixture I don't know - so it will be interesting to see. (Certainly some regions were not colour by 1970)


This certainly was the first election broadcast in colour on the BBC in the UK. However, I read a while back that the 1966 Election was filmed in colour by the BBC for American news organisations.

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