[Afamilyatwar-list] To all

[Brian Renforth]

Hi Scott,

Found this on Wikipedia. Unfortunately the first series of BBC tv's "Cuff" no longer exists but the second series survives according to Wikipedia.

Unfortunately the BBC are unlikely to release this seeing the first series is missing but don't lose hope as, "Softly Softly Task Force" from 1969+ survives intact (one or two as b&w film recordings I believe) which was the sequel to the original, "Softly Softly" where only one episode survives.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluff

Cheers
Brian

Sent from my Windows Phone
________________________________
From: Scott Filderman<mailto:scottfilderman at yahoo.com>
Sent: ‎11/‎04/‎2018 14:20
To: Brian Renforth<mailto:renforthb at live.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Afamilyatwar-list] To all

Brian:

Your tech notes never fail to impress. I do know that a sad amount of television no longer exists because videotape was used over and over; have you (has anyone?) ever seen/heard of Cluff, a regional police series with John McKelvey? Do you know where else I might catch this amazing actor (yes, I’ve scoured the Internet Movie Database)?

Curious George...er, Scott




On Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 8:48 AM, Brian Renforth <renforthb at live.co.uk> wrote:

Indeed Scott. TFS is probably the only B&W videotaped series to survive on their original 2" format. Most programmes, if lucky to have survived at all only exist on 16mm telerecordings' (Kinescopes I understand being the American term), at variable quality for overseas sale.

Indeed, many programmes made in colour only survive as B&W film recordings as well. The situation was similar with the ITV company ATV Network who distributed their programmes under the ITC banner. One of my childhood favourites, "Timeslip" from 1970-71 I well remember watching in colour, except for five made in B&W through the colour strike that also affected 8 AFAW episodes.  Sad to think only variable quality B&W film copies survive (except Episode 12), but under the circumstances we should be grateful it's survived at all.

Anyway, back on topic. TFS could have indeed been made in colour as the 625- line network BBC 2 commenced colour transmissions in 1967, very soon after broadcast. I understand it was repeated on the main BBC 1 a year later which continued exclusive 405-line VHF broadcasts along with ITV until November 1969 when duplication to 625-line UHF colour started in a few areas.

The BBC recorded everything in 625-line mode from mid 1967 whether shown on BBC 1 405 or BBC 2 625 via a complex standards converter. In 1968 the BBC produced a version for the color 525-line NTSC standard.
Remarkable technology at that time.

I must admit I've never seen The Forsythe Saga. From recommendations I must rectify that in the near future!

Brian

Sent from my Windows Phone
________________________________
From: Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list<mailto:afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu>
Sent: ‎11/‎04/‎2018 13:18
To: afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu<mailto:afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu>; Robert Ardis<mailto:lesleyardis at me.com>
Subject: Re: [Afamilyatwar-list] To all

Remarkable to realize The Forsyte Saga was in black and white; many people have such colorful memories of it! I read somewhere it could have been made in color, but management decided otherwise!




On Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 4:50 AM, Robert Ardis via Afamilyatwar-list <afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu> wrote:


Sent from my iPad. Hi,
I am starting to watch my dvds again and know doubt FaW was the best tv seriel ever. Andthe Forsyte saga came close behind. I still watch my black and white dvds and still marvel at how good it was.
_______________________________________________
Afamilyatwar-list mailing list
Afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu<mailto:Afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu>
https://mailman.baylor.edu/mailman/listinfo/afamilyatwar-list
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.baylor.edu/pipermail/afamilyatwar-list/attachments/20180411/dc631c0c/attachment.html>