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Re: Low quality video

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Subject: Re: Low quality video
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by: J Nugent - Thu, 25 Nov 2021 17:47 UTC

On Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 9:53:56 AM UTC-6, JNugent wrote:

> On 16/02/2021 12:35 pm, Mike Swift wrote:
> > JNugent <jennings&c...@fastmail.fm> writes
>
> >>>>> I've mentioned before we have been watching Talking Pictures
> >>>>> episodes of William Tell, Robin Hood, Francis Drake and Sir
> >>>>> Lancelot, the quality is surprisingly good for something made
> >>>>> 80 years ago.
>
> >>>> They're all on film. I think the oldest ("The Adventures of Robin
> >>>> Hood") is still a bit less than 70 years old, the first season having
> >>>> been made just in advance of the start of ATV and AR-TV in September
> >>>> 1955.
> >
> >>> Captain Mainwaring voice, I see you spotted my deliberate mistake, well
> >>> done.
> >
> >>> Obviously should have been 60 years, sneaks away stage left.
> >
> >> :-)
> >> "70" is nearer (a bit)!
> >
> > For the real Nerds among us :-
> >
> > The Adventures of Sir Lancelot - 1 Series - 30 Episodes - 1956-1957
> > Sir Francis Drake " - 26 Episodes - 1961-1962
> > William Tell " - 39 Episodes - 1958-1959
> > The Adventures of Robin Hood - 4 Series - 143 Episodes - 1955-1960
>
> > Missing as yet on Talking Pictures,
>
> > Ivanhoe - 1 Series - 39 Episodes - 1958-1959
> > The Buccaneers - 1 Series - 39 Episodes - 1956-1957
>
> > Where's my life gone?
> I have all of those (except "Sir Francis Drake", which I never liked) on
> DVD box-sets. Also the ITC series "Sword of Freedom" with Edmund Purdom
> and Adrienne Corri.
>
> I hope one day to be able to devote time to watching them.
>
> Others I'd like to see again were "The Black Arrow" (BBC TV [I think],
> late 1950s) and "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (ITV, late 50s and early 60s,
> with Marius Goring).

Update:

I now have the DVD set for "The Scarlet Pimpernel"... I *must* make time to watch a few episodes...