BBC TV Studio N, Manchester live item into Nationwide +Leeds +Southampton - 1981
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- Here we have a live item into Nationwide of worm boy Tom Shufflebotham and his worms from Manchester, from Leeds seagull-scarer Wilf Lunt, and from Southampton a broombalancing Alan Hayball (see comments for his website). It's all typical Nationwide - on this day it's The Great British Eccentric day.
This clip was recorded in Studio N, Manchester on 1st May 1981 by plugging my portable VHS recorder into a wall point in the studio and recording the output of the vision engineer's panel and the Studio N talkback i.e. the director in Studio N. In the background can be heard the Nationwide director Nigel, and also Nationwide programme sound.
What you are seeing is the vision engineer's preview. He selects any source on his panel (as he does) to make sure all the video content is OK, e.g. colour, sync, quality, etc on his oscilloscope. Therefore, you will not see all the time the output of Studio N, but what he decides to select. You may therefore need to watch the clip several times to understand exactly what's going on.
The feed to Nationwide in Studio E, Lime Grove, London is directly from Studio N. However, the feed to Nationwide from Leeds is coming through the Studio N desk, and this is why the Nationwide director asks for it at times, and why the local sound operator wants audio level from Leeds to see if it's correct.
Whereas Manchester had cameramen, sound operators, VT operators etc. in the news studio, Leeds had Technical Operators who were trained in all aspects of television broadcasting, but perhaps 'master of none'. So, if you felt you had a leaning to VT operation you'd do that, for example, but could be called on to do any other job on a particular day.
We also see an item from Southampton - a man balancing a broom on one foot, stood on two bricks :) Good old Nationwide eh!
"Hi Nigel in London, we've got a worm if you're interested" "No thank you Jackie". What gold dust this recording is, it is absolutely fantastic. Early evening BBC1 can't touch this now. Why oh why did they ditch Nationwide? Sigh, It was wonderful. Thank you for taking the time to upload this unhban, this is awesome.
Yeah!...I've hung up my broom now and only balance socially! lol
Chuckle. From your website looks like you got well recognised!
@rotonda4068 Riley was either the make or type of electronic caption machine, and a quick word to say, so why it was used. It was all cutting edge stuff then as before that captions were white letraset on black cardboard. In Studio N a locked off EMI 201 monochrome vidicon camera was used for these captions, however when St.N gained a Riley it was junked. But.... the Riley had its temperamental moments. However, BBC Engineers are known for resolving issues, in this case with a hard slap :)
unhban animate quantel!
That guy from Leeds is bonkers!
Great, thanks.
5:09 "he looks a right... prick!" gold from Jackie.
"oh look at him eating those raw eggs!"
Well done Jackie! Wiff Lunn went on to co-present Vision On with Tony Hart [the late] and [the late] Pat Kellsell. Didn"t Jacqui go on to produce in the early days of Sky Sports? GOD BLESS1
Fantastic! Good on BBC North West for having Jackie directing at a time when I guess there weren't many female directors in the BBC. It took me a while to figure out what the 'mandala' Leeds were being asked to flash was. But why is punching a caption up with someone's name on it known as a 'riley' (if I heard Nigel correctly)?
the caption generator was called the 'Riley' after the manufacturer... the first electronic caption generator (i.e. didn't involve pointing a camera at a bit of text) and based on a BBC design I believe, though there's not much info about it online