retronewfoundland

My tape collection has lots of stuff.


retronewfoundland

By the time you are out of bed on Tuesday morning (February 25), I will have posted the first 3 episodes of "Writer's Realm", a 1987 educational series consisting of 15 episodes in total, over at archive dot org. The plan is to have the entire series posted by the end of Friday night. Stay tuned.

2 months ago | [YT] | 8

retronewfoundland

Doing a little work ahead of a batch of uploads you'll find soon at archive dot org. Stay tuned!

2 months ago | [YT] | 6

retronewfoundland

This is a "future considerations" idea to ‪@ShiksaWithChutzpah1‬ - if only there were someone who would be "in the neighborhood/area" of sorts and that person had working video recorders to do any necessary dubs. Of course, I wouldn't be it as I'm quite a long distance out, and I don't have any Betamax machines anyway. Generally speaking, nearest Betamax user to me is in Nova Scotia. (The one non-VHS tape I did have was sent off to be dubbed years ago and I received a few copies on DVD of what was dubbed.)

2 months ago | [YT] | 6

retronewfoundland

I'm not sure if ‪@ShiksaWithChutzpah1‬ still checks out YouTube at all despite not posting in years, but I do have to inquire about the Cinema 13 stuff from 1981, notably about inquiring if it might be possible at all to upgrade the quality of the excerpts posted long ago. I am interested in seeing that happen, but I know it's also possible what I have typed here might not get far, in a way.

2 months ago | [YT] | 7

retronewfoundland

Something I want to see if ‪@wmbrown6‬ knows about - it involves the TV cameras used by Radio-Canada in Montreal in the late '60s, for I had a chance to look at a couple of episodes of Les belles histoires des pays d'en haut at the end of a free preview of ICI ARTV (increasing my count of surviving color episodes from 56 as of a few years ago to 58, with two more to get in a future free preview). The quality of the picture looked good considering it was a 1960s production that had made the jump to color during 1967, so I wonder which manufacturer's cameras were used then. Or anyone with a knowledge of ‪@RadioCanada‬ history might help me out? Was it RCA? Norelco? Something else?

2 months ago | [YT] | 6

retronewfoundland

Uploaded to archive dot org: "Eight is Enough: A Family Reunion", originally aired October 18, 1987 on NBC, and shown on TNN on July 25, 2000: https://archive.org/details/eight-is-enough-a-family-reunion-1987-10-18

7 months ago | [YT] | 7

retronewfoundland

Going to try an overnight upload to archive dot org. If all goes well, you'll know what it'll be.

7 months ago | [YT] | 9

retronewfoundland

Coming soon this week, a new video to my archive dot org page. That's all I'll say for now, but you will be in for a treat.

7 months ago | [YT] | 10

retronewfoundland

For ‪@TelevisionDetroit‬​​ : What did WDIV use as their Sunday afternoon movie banner by the Spring of 1986 (when there was no football)? While it isn't much to go on, this snapshot of a Mel Farr commercial suggests a movie ran there while over on CBS, they had the NBA All-Star Game.

11 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 17

retronewfoundland

A little note for ‪@TelevisionDetroit‬ : Channel 20 is going to carry the final three games of the Red Wings' regular season. They are (as of April 10, 2024) in a musical chairs scenario with a few other teams for the final playoff spot in the east. The last I know that Channel 20 carried Red Wings games was almost four decades ago. (Both 20 and 50 had multiple stints carrying them.)

1 year ago | [YT] | 11