1960 London - veteran commercial vehicle run - colour cine film

edited October 2012 in Chit chat
another one of my grandads old cine films uploaded to youtube by my dad



apparently the flickering is the transferring process, which is fairly cheap and cheerful, it's too costly to use alternatives.
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  • edited October 2012
    Looks like they transfered it by projecting the image and filming it using a modern camera.

    I know some people who specialise in transferring old cine film - I'll see if I can arrange anything.

    Do you think your granddad or dad were mad enough to film TV material from the screen?
  • edited October 2012
    Reminds me of when I used to get dragged round various vintage car shows in the 80s by my dad.....

    Wonder if any of those vehicles are still being maintained and getting rolled out for shows these days! :D
  • edited October 2012
    well, most of the traffic parked up either side of the parade is old enough to be in a parade now
  • edited October 2012
    That's amazing footage.
    What strikes me is how tidy the streets look. :)
  • edited October 2012
    I think he has box loads of slides and cine film. He's only uploaded 2 films and one slide show so far.

    Don't think he has any lost t.v shows though. As far as I know he never recorded live telly. Slim chance of some lost radio maybe.
  • edited October 2012
    deadpan666 wrote: »
    Wonder if any of those vehicles are still being maintained and getting rolled out for shows these days! :D


    GNU750 - at Time 1:22 is still kicking about :-
    thats about the only Reg I can make out.

    gnu-750.jpg
  • edited October 2012
    awesome, thanks :D
  • edited October 2012
    murtceps wrote: »
    GNU750 - at Time 1:22 is still kicking about :-
    thats about the only Reg I can make out.

    Hehe...Good to know it's still going! :)
  • edited October 2012
    murtceps wrote: »
    GNU750 - at Time 1:22 is still kicking about :-
    thats about the only Reg I can make out.

    But is it going to Derby via Repton, or via Repton 2?
  • edited October 2012
    Winston wrote: »
    But is it going to Derby via Repton, or via Repton 2?

    Unfortunately not; coincidently, I used to live [and my mum still does] in the next village to Repton.

    The blue Bus Service was sold to Derby corporation in the Early 1970's and what was left of the in-service running buses were destroyed in a fire in 1976.


    Edit:- Bizarely with a bit of searching, This bus has now been sold to somene in Lituania :-

    479348.jpg
  • edited October 2012

    Do you think your granddad or dad were mad enough to film TV material from the screen?

    I just spoke to my dad on the phone, and....

    yes they did film some television, there is an episode of Tomorrows World from the 60s, and some adverts from ITV :)
  • edited October 2012
    thx1138 wrote: »
    I just spoke to my dad on the phone, and....

    yes they did film some television, there is an episode of Tomorrows World from the 60s, and some adverts from ITV :)

    You need to find these, and have a look, there is very few pre 1970's Tomorrow's world programmes surviving.
  • edited October 2012
    Well, he has found it, as he watched it today, didn't ask him if it was a full episode or not.

    It was about a turnstile on a bus, a prototype that didn't take off, trying to create a conducterless bus, grandad specifically recorded it, as they worked for the bus company.

    look at this slide show, about 35 seconds in SMS? Expermintal

    Tomorrows World did a feature on this, and grandad set his cine camera up and filmed it from the telly



    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZLPbf9xzQU&feature=plcp
  • edited October 2012
    I hope your posting these on other forums.

    Some people will be creaming themselves looking these.

    Did you know there were people interested in old things, and they even have forums about them ?:D:D:D:D
  • edited October 2012
    here's one I prepared earlier, Dakota fly past today

  • edited October 2012
    thx1138 wrote: »
    apparently the flickering is the transferring process, which is fairly cheap and cheerful, it's too costly to use alternatives.

    You might be interested in this where you use a flatbed scanner to scan the film frame by frame http://vimeo.com/22015773

    This is something I want to try myself but I haven't got around to it yet.

    I used a similar lo-tech transfer of super 8mm and got a lot of flicker as can be seen in my bands video



    so I want to scan it to get a better transfer.
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