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by RichardB
Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:35 am
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Did Anyone Try To Film Programmes From The Television?
Replies: 7
Views: 9848

What sort of things were you recording, stingman?

Richard
by RichardB
Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:01 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Did Anyone Try To Film Programmes From The Television?
Replies: 7
Views: 9848

It was in the early 1980s actually - the very last episode with Tom Baker as Doctor Who. I know I used to use Boots own brand cine film as it was cheaper than Kodak, but I can't recall what sort of price that would have been for a reel - probably something like £4.00-5.00. Still, back in 1980, that ...
by RichardB
Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:39 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Did Anyone Try To Film Programmes From The Television?
Replies: 7
Views: 9848

Did Anyone Try To Film Programmes From The Television?

When I was in my teens, I remember setting up a makeshift camera support in front of the television together with my trusty tape recorder and using my Halina to shoot a reel of 8mm footage from an episode of Doctor Who . You got a slightly annoying dark scan line on the picture, but as my family was...
by RichardB
Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:29 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Blast from the Past - Whatever Happened to Peter Dean?
Replies: 3
Views: 6171

Blast from the Past - Whatever Happened to Peter Dean?

I just wonder if anyone here knows what happened to Peter Dean and whether he's still around? Peter's name was long associated with 8mm cine photography back in the 1960s and 70s, acting as editor on 8mm Magazine and Camera , as well as writing lots of articles for the likes of Movie Maker and Film ...