What old recordings have you found?

Mr Stabby - the DJ playing the records was Simon Mayo. The series was Words into Action, made before Simon Mayo was the breakfast DJ on Radio 1. At the time it was made, the production values were quite high - a lot of special effects and stuff which at the time you didn;t expect to see in education prog.s

The school that held the tapes with the mirror globe did so illegally. Up to around about 1990 or so, schools were expected to delete copies made of a broadcast after 2 years of holding a recording (and were expected to rerecord the prog if it was rebroadcast). Mercifully we are now spared all that and can exjoy some of the old progs on Class TV (CBBC term time 9am - 1pm)

On another front I've a tape here with a BBC Scotland ident for Hogmanay - from about 7 - 8 years ago I think. No one every mentions it. It had an animation or computer generated film of a bell ringing with camera zooming out of bell tower to show a village of houses in nighttime.

What are you on about? I don't really see how this is relevant, but the English syllabus still exists (and I've certainly never been part of a class entitled 'Literacy') - perhaps some younger people would call it literacy - but are you telling me the form I signed today saying "AQA GCSE English Coursework Submission" is incorrectly labeled? I think not...

When I was at primary school (or whatever its called in England), we called English 'Language' and we called ES 'Project'.

Ah yes, the Hogmanay idents. From the "BBC Scotland on [n:n=(1,2)]" era. ISTR they were shown on the 31st only, but on both channels, and had the three stripes BBC Scotland logo in a variety of interesting ways.

Same. We thought it was dead posh whenever anyone called it 'English'.
Ah, how we had to grow up so fast for high school.

Last year at Uni we were treated to an old World In Action about the Poll Tax, with an old Y Yorkshire ident at the start. The lecturer said "this shows how old it is" but not many people knew exactly how old since most had come from outside the region.

I didn't really notice special effects at the time, but yes it could of been Simon Mayo. Just goes to show how small the world is.

As for the school holding the tapes illegally, that's an odd rule, do you think it would apply to Channel Island schools too as we tend to have different rules to everybody else.

IT'S LITERACY,NOT ENGLISH!
Right,now we can get back to the thread.I've got some stuff from 1999 pre-hearts with Give your'e mate a break,then ITV News and a few minutes of Inspector morse then the tape ends.And the word animations are the one where the logos fill the screen and before that,the brilliant generic ident!

I think you'll find it isn't...


Remind me, what's "ES"?

Oh, and can anyone think up a good excuse as to why I want to go searching for tapes in the attic?

I have:

Continuity clips, 1964-2005; including IVC from ATV in 1964, LWT and Southern continuity from the late 1970s, BBC NI junctions from 1980; ATV menu/clock, LWT continuity and Autumn '81 on ITV trailers from 1981, UTV closedown from 1982; stuff from various ITV regions from 1984 onwards...

Adverts, 1955-2005

News-related stuff... the intro to the 9 O'Clock News from 1980, News at Ten titles from 1982, BBC Evening News from 1983, Six O'Clock titles 1984-1993, Nine O'Clock titles 1985-1988 and 1988-1993, ITN 545 titles from 1983, 1985 and 1988, NaT titles from 1993, and regional news material including UTV 1982-2004, Central News 1987-1991, Granada 1992, and recent Calendar/Look North material

About 350 episodes of TOTP

Sky One & UK Gold presentation from 1994-1997; had some matches on tape too but wiped them and kept the continuity and ads

And other stuff... can't remember what I have really, and most of it's back home in NI.

I doubt very much if many schools followed the wipe and re-record rule, I mean, who's going to check? Who's going to prosecute? It was a petty rule, and thank God enough schools ignored it so we can see those hypnotising old diamonds, dots and clocks!

What titles? I saw TV Capture Capabilities on your signature!
But is the video player in your capture equipment?