[James2001]

I watched the first episode out of curiosity. Does anyone know why there is a mix of film recording for some of the location filming, and then video for other parts that are shot on location?

TBH there's quite a lot of that in shows from the 60s-80s, probably based on what was most practical/available at the time of filming. After all, video location work at the time would have needed big cameras and an OB unit which wouldn't always have been available or practical.

From what I've seen of Emmerdale Farm, the first few years are a mix of film and video on location, though heavily biased towards film in 73/74. I haven't seen any post-1975 filmed location work on Emmerdale Farm, though it doesn't mean there wasn't any, though there wouldn't have been much. Suprisingly early for a show to have most or all of its location work done on video though, when there were many shows still using film into the early 90s.

Whereas Corrie which was still using film until 1988! Though funnily enough Corrie had a lot of VT location work in the 60s and early 70s, though it seemed to drift mostly to film after around 1976 and video location work seemed to have gone entirely by the start of the 80s. Certainly with the episodes we saw on ITV3, the only 86/87 video location work was the fire episode, then a couple of brief scenes a couple of weeks later with Jack Duckwork trying to get people to join the Graffiti Club. Then there were 4 weeks in December 87/January 88 where all the location work was video, then it was back on film for another 5 weeks, before going video full time in Feb 88.

Wondering if the long term use of film on Corrie was editorial rather than practical (and the move away from video seemed to start around the time Bill Podmore took over as executive producer, and it was when David Liddiment took over some of his duties that it went back to video), especially when Granada's other soap, Albion Market, was entirely video. Especially when the set was right next to the studios and presumably they could have wired camera sockets to a gallery to even save an OB unit being needed.