{"id":4383,"date":"2015-07-20T14:49:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T14:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=4383"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:41:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T12:41:46","slug":"travelling-backwards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/travelling-backwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling Backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Gary Critcher<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was watching the \u201cTale Of Three Cities\u201d doco from BBC4 (tx 07\/02\/2014). The subject was New York, programme presented by Dr. James Fox (for one fleeting moment I thought it may have been the actor of the same name but no).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very early in the programme there is a shot of the presenter looking back at the New York skyline from the back of one of the harbour ferries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it ran through I immediately thought \u2018There\u2019s something funny about that shot.\u2019 So re-wound and looked at it again,&nbsp; didn\u2019t spot anything. &nbsp;On the third pass I realised what it was &nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp; it was being played backwards!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/three_city_cut.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my picture of the sequence, you can see him looking back at the skyline, but the movement is TOWARDS the skyline, but you can see the ship\u2019s wake in the shot\u2026..they are moving back over it! Very strange!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>(Click on the picture below to see a larger or clearer version of this picture:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Click the &#8220;X&#8221; button (top right) to close the newly opened picture.)<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_1.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_1-300x168.png\" alt=\"backwards_1\" class=\"wp-image-4379\" style=\"width:668px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_1-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_1.png 831w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Graeme Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just before that there\u2019s a pull focus to the Statue of Liberty that looks a bit strange as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_2.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_2-300x168.png\" alt=\"backwards_2\" class=\"wp-image-4380\" style=\"width:670px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_2-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_2.png 831w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Barry Bonner<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If anybody remembers &#8220;Round Britain Whizz&#8221; where an RAF jet fighter flew the entirety of the coastline of Britain in an hour (methinks?) not only was it speeded up but was entirely backwards. &#8220;Coast&#8221; on quite a few occasions had helicopter shots of the coastline where you can see the waves rolling backwards!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Chris Booth<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indeed it was &#8211; to avoid the lens getting totally covered in flies\/bugs before they\u2019d even got off the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original programme duration was 29\u2019 15\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We monitored at full screen, but were all feeling violently ill by Beachy Head, hence the quarter frame Quantel!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The longer version which went out on Boxing Day 1988 was at a much more modest speed, but lasted 2 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>(Click on the pictures below to see a larger or clearer version of the picture:<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Click the &#8220;X&#8221; button (top right) to close the newly opened picture.)<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_3.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_3-300x189.png\" alt=\"backwards_3\" class=\"wp-image-4381\" style=\"width:670px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_3-300x189.png 300w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_3.png 643w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Land\u2019s End:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_4.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_4-300x193.png\" alt=\"backwards_4\" class=\"wp-image-4382\" style=\"width:673px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_4-300x193.png 300w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/backwards_4.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Albert Barber<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course the great feat of engineering was the OB from Calais. \u201cA Tale of Two Cities\u201d. Not to mention the circus performer with three breasts. Work it out for yourselves as Max Miller would say or was it Frankie Howard as Lurchio?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ian Dow<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was the EM on \u201cRail Watch\u201d, a series of live OBs three times a day for a week from the East Coast Main Line, based at York Station. We sent a PSC crew to observe the overnight activity at Edinburgh Waverley. They edited on site and had to get the tape onto the 6am train to York for our morning transmission, but were short of a shot of a train arriving \u2013 and were tempted to run a shot backwards in order pack up and get to bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember waking them in their hotel by phone immediately after the tape was transmitted to let them know of my horror at seeing a shot of a High Speed Hoover entering Waverly station with red lights on the front &#8211; and sucking diesel fumes out of the air!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ianfootersmall-300x104.jpg\" alt=\"ianfootersmall\" class=\"wp-image-1061\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ianfootersmall-300x104.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ianfootersmall.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Critcher I was watching the \u201cTale Of Three Cities\u201d doco from BBC4 (tx 07\/02\/2014). The subject was New York, programme presented by Dr. James Fox (for one fleeting moment I thought it may have been the actor of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/travelling-backwards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4383","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/author\/alec\/","display_name":"Alec Bray"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 11 years ago","modified":"Updated 2 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 20, 2015","modified":"Updated on March 26, 2024"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 20, 2015 2:49 pm","modified":"Updated on March 26, 2024 12:41 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18734,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4383\/revisions\/18734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}