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A fascinating behind the scenes of the Six documentary from 1988

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Interesting that the copyright line is BBC Television Training, so presumably this wasn't originally made for broadcast but was shown on BBC2.

And that clears up something I'd not known until watching this. 'Quantel' came before 'Charisma'. 

Great find!

You may have also noticed that at one stage the director refers to the ‘Quantel 5000’. This is the device capable of ‘doing’ the squeeze drop boxes you see on screen. In fact the the 5000 was the NTSC version of the machine, the PAL version being the 5001. I guess 5000 tripped off the tongue much more easily than 5001 so entirely understandable given the likely pressure in the gallery. We used to simply refer to it as the ‘DPE’ although in our building we only had the Quantel channels in the studio areas so you couldn’t really mistake it for anything else. A very small point I know.