Vintage 1968 "TV Production Planning" training film; filming, video technology (BBC) (Ackland)
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2020
- Vintage 1968, An Excerpt from a BBC TV training film gives great behind the scenes look at the technology and techniques used to direct and produce a TV series. A fascinating look at vintage tech of filming, live video, and sound recording, video mixing and the director’s role in orchestrating the creation of the final product, all from a UK perspective. (You may also recognize a very young Joss Ackland, the famous actor of many great films. Joss Ackland is 92 now.) Hope you enjoy.
-- Also, I found this interesting recent video from Mr. Ackland:
Joss Ackland’s video letter to the world, at 92 years old
• 92-year-old Joss Ackla...
And this, of course, Joss Ackland in “Hunt for Red October”
• The Hunt for Red Octob...
(The original BBC film ran about 40 mins. This is an excerpt.)
Thanks very much to Speakeasy Archives (Old Time TV, Radio: digital transfers) www.speakeasyarchives.com/ - Věda a technologie
An interesting glimpse into TV production behind-the-scenes in the late 60's! I really do get a good appreciation of how much work went into getting an episode of television produced seeing how much the director and crew need to be on the ball to get scenes created for one of these shows!
Wow, what a great video! I would absolutely love to see the original. Z cars is a famous UK Police drama.
One niggle: This is not filming, but live video. It might seem like a nitpick, but after all the subject of the video is the art and craft of planning a studio television production. Z cars was one of the last regular BBC programmes to be acted out live on air!
Notice how at the end of this programme, they cut to a film projector to show some scene from outdoors. The large black-on-white numeral "10" on the screen is showing film cued up in the telecine machine. At 14:30, script calls "run TK", and in the following picture you see the flashing of the old 7-6-5-4-3-2... film leader. The approval of the director at the successful timing illustrates how difficult this is to get right.
Amazing stuff Mainstream broadcastTV was less than 20 years old cheap VT had not kicked in Fantastic acting, planning, camera technology. Look at the skill in that model studio. I was 4 or 5 at the time. What will happen to broadcast TV now? Visual, audio and editing Technology now has led so many talented individual CZcamsrs putting out quality items. Specialist subjects can be enthused upon without having to dumb things down on command of some over paid executive.
love the miniature set and all the model cameras. Especially how all the models have cables so they can work out where to route them around the room. Just missing a few dolls and you could make a low budget soap :D
The Director is Christopher Barry, famous for directing (brilliantly) many of the most important early Doctor Who stories.
A fascinating look at how the BBC create TV programs. 🇬🇧
4:43 - Love the model set. Real 'hands-on.'
The director has a whip in his direction.
5:59 - This is Kingsdown Close, W10. Apart from the Metropolitan line extension to Hammersmith, and Church in the background, almost nothing else this shot still exists. Look closely and you'll see the Westway being built on the far left of the screen.
Hi R. Freemano, Thank you for the great info! Good spotting. With your info I was able to Google it, "Kingsdown Close, Notting Hill, London W10, UK," is the full address. Nice to know that. ~ Victor, at CHAP
The behind the scenes shots are from a missing episode of 'Z-Cars', titled 'What D'Yer Mean - Charity?' which broadcast between the 26-27th February 1968. Currently no editions of the series from 1968 are known to exist, so this is the only existing visual record from that year.
imafilmbuff, great to hear that. Makes this little clip even a bit more rare. Thanks for sharing that! ~ VK
“This is where the magic happens.” That’s the first thing that popped into my head.
Thank you for the look back.
Btw Did they solve the case? ;-)
“Can somebody get that boom out of the shot?”
Hi Greg, glad you liked it. I don't know how the case turned out... maybe some day the original series will be on "BritBox" and we can find out. : ) Victor, CHAP
Love it!
Interesting seeing these scenes in colour considering that they were filmed in black and white. A real shame that black and white tv lasted a long time considering colour technology was already around (colour film, photograhpy and television).
This is absolutely fascinating, thank you very much for sharing. Do you know if the complete programme is available anywhere? I’m researching vintage TV production methods and it would be great to see the full thing. Thanks again.
Hi David, I do not think the full documentary has been posted. Will take a look. Its owned by BBC and they may not allow the entire film upload. This excerpt does have the best highlights (in our view). I think the full version is 40 mins or more. Thanks very much for watching. Good luck with your continued research. ! ~ CHAP
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject thanks very much for the prompt reply! It is a wonderful piece of footage. I’m interested especially in archive TV programmes directed by Christopher Barry (the director seen in the production gallery here), who is now perhaps best known for his contributions to the BBC’s Dr Who series. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Barry
Back when you needed some real skills in order to produce a TV-program.
Yes, and much attention to detail and acting skill. Thanks for watching!
But a real shame that the end product was in black and white.
And today a News reader gets out of bed has to do no pre reading gets sheet of paper on the way in does 2 hours on a red set then frigs off home and picks up a stupid amount of money, thats the problem, great content is dead as the BBC bosses focus on paying mediocre talent huge salareis, need to reverse this practice as TV will die a slow death
news readers have worked like that ever since the teleprompter was invented. Quite often they have no idea what they have to read till they sit down in the studio