Category Archives: Additions
Some month’s ago, following Bob Oakley’s “Story of Film Recording”, I threw down the challenge to some of the ex Telecine Oldboys to produce a similar thing.
Bill Tucker has now come up with two excellent pieces, “Bill Tucker at the BBC”, and “Life as a TK Operator“, both of which you will find in The 1960s.
(Additional detail supplied by John Crane, Lawford Thomas and Jim Tucker)
Bill, pictured right driving TK1 at Lime Grove, covers the years from 1951 to 1988, and the story overlaps nicely with Arthur Dungate’s Direct Television from Alexandra Palace, which you can find in The 1950s.
I am now adding all thoughts about Ray to a new page in Recollections as they come in.
The two remembrances of Dan George and Rob Deacon are now available in Recollections.
Bob Oakley has dug out this job advertisement from 1970, some 8½ years prior to Ian Williams’ editor’s advert on October 5th.
After the sad news of the past couple of months, Ian Williams has cheered me up a bit with this job advertisement from 1978 – I’m looking for a permanent home for it, most likely in Editing.
However, before that, does anyone out remember applying for that job? It closed on September 5th 1978.
As a memory jogger, this was shortly after the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta – perhaps Geoff Higgs can recall the board – he was a boss then!
The two remembrances of RDH and Henry are now available in Recollections, along with further recollections of colleagues who are no longer with us.
The latest addition is a Scroll of Honour collected by Denis Wyatt following the great leaving in June 2009. I’ve also added emails to the Contacts where provided. It would be nice to see some of the newly enrolled “Oldboys” (or girls) at one of the Lunches throughout the year. Our next is at Guildford on November 5th so that might be the ideal opportunity to come along and meet a lot of old friends.
A belated Happy New Year to everyone! Regular readers will recall the discovery of the majority of the lost Direct TV from Alexandra Palace website in the Internet Archive in September last year (September 9th’s entry is the start of the tale). Subsequently I managed to fill in some of the missing pieces (December 14th entry) and thought that was the best I could do.
Just before Christmas I received a letter from Arthur and, after contacting him, received a CD-ROM with the last complete vesion of the whole site. This has now been uploaded with its original format and navigation, so go and explore!
Thanks to Patrick Collins and Nigel Finnis, I think I should be able to fill in the missing bits of Arthur Dungate’s AP website that was salvaged in September. Also I hope to add more Lime Grove pictures in the new year.
At the recent Oldboys Lunch at Guildford, Dennis Collett gave me a CD-Rom of photographs he took in Munich in 1972 (That’s 36 years ago!). Whilst the main section in Trips describes the area and machines, these other pictures bring back many memories to those who actually went there. Additionally I have just got to grips with Photoshop’s Web Gallery Automation, and so I have added a Munich Gallery and a Brisbane Gallery. I shall be going through the rest of the vast collection of photographs I have received and add more Galleries over the Winter.
The Direct Television from Alexandra Palace web site that I mentioned below has now been relocated to its own domain. I managed to get www.bbctv-ap.co.uk which mimics fairly well its original home with Freeserve. I have tidied up the formatting and navigation and found a few of the missing pictures from our own archives. I have already received offers of more information and, possibly, some of the pictures that are missing. The link from here is as before in Links, but I have renamed it to Direct Television from Alexandra Palace. There are a lot of familiar names (and experiences) that VT Oldboys will recall.
