Betamax continuity 14 - 1976-79 (inc. Vision On, news and Nationwide)
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- For the sake of nerdy interest, this is actually from Philips N1500 rather than Betamax, and it's more about programme material than continuity. It includes the majority of the very last Vision On, from 11th May 1976 (the first few minutes are missing).
Towards the end of this edition there is a sequence of the cast dressed as insects miming to I Want To Hold Your Hand by the Beatles. I've had to remove the music from this as it was causing the video to be blocked worldwide.
The final 15 minutes is an Open University forum from 1978 chaired by Magnus Magnusson seemingly from a school hall, discussing social deprivation with specific reference to the problems of the Lilybank estate in Glasgow which had been the subject of a highly controversial documentary The Fourth World earlier in the year.
I've featured highlights of this material in previous uploads, but this presents everything unedited, exactly as it came off the tapes.
As usual, if you watch the 720p50 stream, the picture should retain its original "interlaced video" look. - Zábava
To have over an hour of 1970s material on tape is frankly a superb achievement. That the channel has a few hours of it is even more amazing.
Reminds me of my childhood , eating me tea and watching great telly
What a treat to see the wonderful Vision on
My first trip to the UK was in 1975. This is the kind of television programming I would watch. I was particularly mesmerized by the BBC1 rotating world and I thought it was a stunning electronic effect. Much later, thanks to the internet, I would learn it was mechanical :-)
My first trip was in 1977. I remember seeing "Are You Being Served?" and the PG Tips "Mr. Shifter" advert for the first time. And discovering the joys of Cornettos...and honeydew melon...and orange Smarties that tasted of orange.
Are you guys from the US? . I'm live in UK born and bred here! Spot on with the TV you described. I always wanted to visit America never got there yet 😔
@OofusTwillip cornettos are the best ! I'm a brit born and bred and my first trip to the US was aged 10 and I was amazed at the amount of channels there were and commercial breaks every 5-10 minutes with so many different cereals advertised! My first ever Macdonlds was in Florida too! We only still had just 3 channels at the time in the UK with channel 4 only starting later that year!
Recording is in great condition for 1976 ....thanks for posting the replay machine is working perfect ...
What a stunning format was N1500 as a home video system. Especially visible from 33:00 onwards the BBC news. Better than VHS apparently.
Amazing stuff, thanks for this. Watched the Vision On clips before reading the description. I remembered the clip of the dinosaur gazing at the sunset and it got me all wistful. Now I know it was the end of the series 😢
It's amazing that these clips survive on domestic formats considering how expensive the videocassettes were at the time. Fabulous stuff. Thanks!
This is amazing thank you for posting this💜💜💜💜
Picture quality very good! I enjoyed that thanks a lot.
Excellent thanks for the upload.
Thanks for posting !
Seeing the great John Noakes at the beginning reminds me how lucky I and my generation were to have him to entertain and inform us.
this is fantastic. thanks for sharing
I always thought the Vision on Grasshopper looked like the aliens from Quatermass and the Pit.
lol it do! Love that film too.
I think its name is Grogg, a cross between "grasshopper" and "frog".
That creature scared me when I saw it aged only 5!
Lovely to hear a performance of Antonio Ruiz-Pipò's Danza during the Vision on collage section. Some 3 years before SKY recorded their version on their debut album.
Thanks for this, vision on was brilliant, Sylvester McCoy and the bloke in the white coat my favourites.
Great sample of 1970's BBC Eastern Counties / Look East / Nationwide, this is the first example I have found
Always thought it was interesting that the background music for 'The Gallery' segment of 'Vision On' ('Left Bank Two') was used as the opening theme music for the successor series, 'Take Hart', with 'Cabatina' used as the background music for 'The Gallery' segment of 'Take Hart'
Stunning quality of the tape .. Betamax was far superior to VHS
vision on is one of the most delightful things i've ever watched in my life
indeed, it was a jolly good show
I've been searching for ages for some video of 'vision on'. I used to love watching it.
Very nice too and well done of course.
Boy that brought back some memories-I'm in Ipswich and have fond memories of the Anglia start up!
I swear, with five minutes of planning, Tony Hart could have taken a half a pint of lager in his mouth and spat it onto paper and ever kid in the English-speaking world would have seen the horse he had in mind and run off to copy it with apply juice. That guy's art was unfailingly amazing on VisionOn. :)
Love it. I was too young to understand why the lady was signing at the start of vision on
Absolute gold dust. It set precedent around the world, for others' kids TV. I think the lady was the DG 's secretary. And, was asked to sign , to be inclusive.
Great to see David Purley there
Great Retro video :o) any more from 1976 ? my Fab year (I was 9 going on 10) - great year for music, hot summer and partial eclipse of the sun (Viking 1 lands on Mars) and More !... Goodies rule Ok !
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the theme from around 6:00 originally used in Mary, Mungo & Midge?
Yes. It was Mungo's theme 🐶
The Anglia start-up around 1 minute in is from Friday, April 2, 1976.
I was born 4 days later, there is nothing you can date from the 6th is there?
That Anglia TV i-dent I never knew it was so long and the ornament doing a full circle i remember just a still picture and the jingle.
It's the startup film, not the ident. The normal Anglia ident before programmes was only about 6 seconds: czcams.com/video/G8iSlnlQTZM/video.html
Loved early Vision On with Ben Benison
A very very brief glimpse of the South East presenter. Only for a second. Nationwide at Lime Grove provided the regional news for London/South East, so the network feed from London to Norwich would have been the London/SE feed, and Norwich just missed the opt out by a second.
Vision on , Tony Hatch, Pat Keysell,Ben Bennison, Wilf Lunn, Morph great
Morph wasn't part of Vision On, he made his debut on Take Hart.
Vision On was never repeated on BBC TV. All the memories you have of it, are from the original broadcast, the last of which was 1976!!
In fact, it had a short repeat run in summer 1979.
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Any video?
So typical of the complex button pressing to link Nationwide to the regions that we see the South East studio for a split second before Ian Masters on Look East!
In reality, it was actually very simple button-pressing. All the BBC regions took the network feed from London for the opening titles of Nationwide, and had to cut away from them to allow their local presenter to do the first link. It was a simple hard cut that had to lose the network audio as well, otherwise all the regions would hear the London presenter talking under the local one.
Really, all the regions should have run their own local copy of the Nationwide titles so they could come out of them cleanly, but that's not how they chose to do it.
And yet Nationwide was notorious for technical problems. I really liked it at the time and admired its ambition. They should bring it back.
Ian also appeared on BBC North West in the black & white days & moved to Bangor (from memory) he must have gone to Norwich in an attempt to get nearer to London. Nationwide came from Lime Grove, I loved the theme music too!
Vision On is great.
Excellent Stuff I remember it well, shame about Big John Little John! Thank you!
What’s the music playing from 22:26-23-18?
Left Bank Two by the Noveltones. czcams.com/video/UcCHRW8G9yY/video.html
53 mins in is very interesting
The way we were
Whatever became of that Sylvester McCoy fellow?
David Purley received the George Medal for trying to rescue another driver who had crashed and he car was on fire. He died, having retired from racing and taking up aerobatics, in a plane crash.
This may well have been the final vision on as it finished in 76 and the announcer didnt say it was coming back... Pat Keysall was a babe
Looking at it now, it seems that Vision On was set in some insane asylum where the nutters who happened to be great artists and crafters could do what they liked....mixed with a littl Python? Those theme tunes still stuck In my head as clear as day.
Oops! I see they managed a bit of newsroom South East before Look East kicked in
Before he was the Seventh Doctor Who, Sylvester McCoy doing this great children's programme with the fantastic artist, Tony Hart!!! I reckon Sylvester could still play an older Rudolf Steiner in a TV or film production!!! 🙂🌞🌻💛🙏
Sylveste McCoy on Vision on........I think somebody missed the r out lol.
That was his official stage name at the time. He added the "r" later.
Georgie Davis is coming out. - Duran Duran
The Betty Boop cartoon that we see a bit of is one of those horrible redrawn color versions
better than watching the christmas crap on the bbc this. a great reminder of better times.
Are my eyes playing tricks, or is Janet Ellis pregnant in that episode of "Jigsaw" - carrying Sophie, if so?
Yes, I think she was.
Yes she was. This episode of Jigsaw must have been recorded before Sophie was born in April 1979. As I recall it was broadcast in the summer of 1979.
Is that Sylvester McCoy the seventh Doctor in Doctor Who at 20:00 he always being a clown even when was the doctor
Yes, he called himself "Sylveste" back then.
This video is not working on tablets.
Unfortunately it won't. This is CZcams policy because of 6 music copyright matches. The only way around it (other than for me to remove the relevant sections, which I'm not going to do) is to watch it on a computer, or possibly a smart TV.
It works on my phone
Works on my tablet (Lenovo).
How on earth did VHS win the battle when Betamax was by far the superior form of cassette recording?
Beta wasn't significantly superior. The idea that it was is a myth that just won't die. It was marginally better at best. JVC was more on the ball with third-party licensing for VHS, so numerous companies started making the machines, which led to price competition, which led to VHS decks becoming cheaper than Beta. Hence more people bought VHS decks.
VHS and Betamax were very similar in performance. The specs on Beta were slightly better, but it didn't really translate into a better picture! Additionally, Beta's always laced-up static head drums were prone to wear, which caused tape drag in rewind. In some ways VHS was better! The Philips VCR System was better than VHS or Beta!
Price won the Betamax/VHS battle.
Let's just say a certain adults only industry had something to do with it
@@MrNinjaFish Not remotely, That's another myth. Porn was widely available on both Beta and VHS until it became clear that more people were buying VHS decks, at which point the porn distributors decided to rationalise and focus on the bigger market and dropped support for Beta. Mainstream movie studios also phased out their line of Beta rental titles at about the same time. When the video rental shop in my village opened in 1981 its stock was 50-50 VHS and Beta; only a couple of years later it was 95% VHS and Beta was consigned to a single rotating rack by the door.
31:45 Ah, back when the Brits could still pronounce the word "secretary" properly. Those were the days. :)
I don't like the way the burbles speech bubbles weye skipped!!
I'll go back to 1976 and complain to the person who made the recording.
Bleak
Really? You should have seen it 10 years earlier in 405-line black and white.
Too bad it's one of those horrid "redrawn" Betty Boop cartoons.