Recreating Early Colour Outside Broadcast

[@carlharoe]

hope there’s a longer version or the full program of this, i would love to see it.

[@jacksamuelzs]

I can't be the only one who goes for this stuff. Let's see some more of it fellas.

[@AdapttvhistoryOrgUk]

You certainly are not the only one! There's more from this reenactment at our website, on this page: www.adapttvhistory.org.uk/outside-broadcast We will also be uploading lots more videos from the event, and others, onto KZbin, towards the end of July. Hopefully they will appear in your feed as we upload them.

[@jacksamuelzs]

There goes my afternoon...Thanks!

[@OliverWoodphotography]

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.

[@monteceitomoocher]

And a lot of teamwork!, it certainly was a golden age, especially for us repair technicians dealing with customers, best days of my life, would go back in a heartbeat.

[@flyingo]

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!

[@Broadercasting]

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.

[@lancechinnian4043]

Fascinating. And how lovely to see an old BBC OB truck.

[@tracygeddes5867]

Marvellous,brings back memories of trying to match test patterns ,all at the last moment, I have a sore back just remembering how heavy everything was.

[@tortysoft]

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.

[@TV-FilmCameramanUK]

one of those wonderful ole camera ops is still a regular at Wimbledon every year.

[@GentilsGarage]

This is fantastic. I would have loved to see this demonstration live

[@MVVblog]

Magnificent!

[@coreyfuimaono5220]

I would love to see the full program that was made :)

[@geraldoribeiro6335]

Wondetful. My students became scared when saw truck on operation and the engineers doing their role. On live failure is never an option. Thanks a lot

[@derekheeps1244]

Fabulous , but nowadays you see kids with iPhones sent along to provide live coverage of events !

[@Lighting_Desk]

What a gorgeous little peice of history.

[@mikemallen9378]

Absolutely fantastic, congratulations and thanks for posting, I still have my TX98 key .

[@justinharris1199]

will you ever upload the program that they recorded to tape?

[@turboslag]

That was wonderful, truly fascinating!

[@scottbaker3221]

Great program - thank you !

[@Emma__Smith]

this is awesome!

[@rty1955]

In 1970 you would be using 2" quad video tape machines. Not 1" machines. The Sony 1" machines were not until 1982 I restore 2" quad tape machines and worked in every machine AMPEX made. The PYE cameras are also made by Philips company, specifically Norelco. The PC60 was developed in 1964 for CBS in USA. The PC70 was a very popular camera as well. The handheld camera being the PCP-90

[@simonbirt6121]

Wow, what a gem.

[@christopherhulse8385]

You never forget how to do something, you just momentarily pause.

[@roycefaggotter6860]

That is absolutely incredible, thank you oh so much.

[@sebastian_drazczyk]

Coś pięknego zobaczyć taki sprzęt do dziś pracujący

[@chilenitotv]

Me encantó!! muchas gracias, hago television en vivo y me hicieron viajar en el tiempo.

[@robinvanags912]

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!

[@david.marcus]

Comic Sans shouldve been around in the 70s

[@TheGramophoneGirl]

Amazing to see, but wasn't it a 2 inch video recorder back in 1972?

[@mrb.5610]

Absolutely ! And that's a mid 90's Sony one as well !!

[@julielowe7462]

@@mrb.5610 Yes, but I only know of one working Ampex Quadruplex, and my ex marconi mate Paul wont let that out of his sight, much less be trucked across country, the One inch C format one's are more plentiful, and easier to find spares for !

[@tortysoft]

@@julielowe7462 Ah, OK then. You are forgiven :-)

[@mikecumbo7531]

A quad would have required a second truck, don’t forget the air compressor, unless you found an Ampex AVR-2. There was an engineer here in the States that moved 50,000lbs of old VTR’s and parts when he relocated from the eastern US to Nevada. Haven’t seen him since in 25+ years since we both moved, hope Tim is well.

[@davidhaney1394]

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 .

[@jourwalis-8875]

Four tube cameras!

[@simonbullimore1807]

Absolutely fantastic... just remind me again what was the problem with VT. was there transport issues?

[@justforfunvideohobby]

The issue is you cannot cross dissolve it because the two video fields aren’t in sync. Think of the diagonal lines on the videotape where the actual magnetic data is recorded- back in the day there was no device that you could use to inject the signal with the same black burst sync genlock signal, therefore the cross dissolve would look crazy weird like a bad moire. You can hear them talking about it in the video a tiny bit

[@jourwalis-8875]

A Sony 1 inch tape machine?!

[@freddienz]

TX98 - same locks fitted to the vans exported to New Zealand...

[@martinmannik]

But why is the analogue footage in wrong aspect ratio? It should be in 4:3, not in 16:9, and definitely not stretched out like this. And don't tell me it's because 4:3 footage with black bars on right and left are unfamiliar for modern young people. :)

[@jamesgraham8475]

Fantastic, the BBC in its hey day.

[@justforfunvideohobby]

Cool

[@richjames2540]

Surely a 2” quad would have been the correct vtr for early colour ob? 1” came in mid to late 70’s. Otherwise good piece. Of course the real job was playing out live as many sports used to do. Then things could get very stressful and there is no bar to retire to on an ob truck.

[@chinnyvision]

Indeed but working examples are rare, certainly don't like being moved around and it would have added a whole level of complexity. Almost certainly another truck with all the support equipment which usually involved things like compressed air as well! However 1 inch machines are more compact, need less support equipment and are more plentiful.

[@davidmaurits]

Waw!

[@blesshiscottonsocks]

You get a like, this time

[@bob4analog]

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!

[@Wumpus.1201]

Hij doet het dus nog!