27-10-2023, 07:23 AM
(26-10-2023, 11:58 PM)Neil Jones Wrote: Some stuff from the BBC Archive YouTube channel:Speaking of video tapes, here's a clip from the BBC in 1982 warning us of the dangers of buying counterfeit video cassettes:
Things you'd never get away with today #12:
Eric Morecambe smoking a pipe in front of a group of children in 1973, on an episode of Val Meets The VIPs:
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And from the same channel, here's a BBC Breakfast insert from 2013 re: BBC Idents. I can't see this has already been posted and I did search so if has been posted... oops.
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And for now, here's a look at VERA from 1958, Britain's first video tape recorder, and somebody mentions the ability to wipe the tape when they've fnished with it. Nobody would be silly enough to record a programme on tape and then wipe it... would they?
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