<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi Bernie,<div><br></div><div>Ever so slightly scary..~! I’d just left, but so many faces from half a lifetime ago!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing it..</div><div><br></div><div>All best</div><div><br></div><div>Nick<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 30 Nov 2018, at 18:03, Kate Bickford via Pres <<a href="mailto:pres@tech-ops.co.uk">pres@tech-ops.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Wow Bernie<div><br></div><div>Fantastic, thank you for sharing this. Lots of familiar faces.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Kate ( Eileen)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 3:16 PM Bernard Newnham via Pres <<a href="mailto:pres@tech-ops.co.uk">pres@tech-ops.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">A long time ago, in a
galaxy far far away......<br>
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A Pres Control secretary called Fran decided to leave the
department, back in the days when leaving was pretty much unheard
of. Presentation Editor Granville Jenkins had bought himself a
video camera, and set out to make a video of everyone saying
goodbye to Fran.<br>
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Somehow, long ago, I was given a copy of the rushes. I don't
remember what format they were on, probably second or third
generation VHS, nor do I remember why, but I recently found a DVD
copy in amongst much other stuff lying around here. I've done a
rather late edit. Much of the material was given to "Goodbye Fran"
stuff, but Granny often started recording early and stopped late.
The bits round the edges form lots of tiny character vignettes
which, much, much later, are fascinating. Some people only got to
say the goodbye bit - not too relevant now - but I still wanted to
put them in, so they a slomo-ed. Granny also covered much of the
places we worked and the gear we used, and that adds a context.<br>
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I don't know if Granny ever did a edit, but his experience must
have been a lot different to mine. I'm sitting here at home in
front of the free version of Blackmagic Da Vince Resolve, so
reversing the last shot, laying multiple audio tracks, trimming a
word or sentence, </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">and adding
titles (in BBC Washington typeface), </font>was the work of
seconds. How the world has moved on. <br>
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Anyway - if you were there, and even if you weren't, please enjoy
this visit to BBC TV Centre and it's presentation department,
when, in hindsight, it was at it's peak. <br>
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</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">32 years late -
<a class="m_1545001040657862407moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.tech-ops.co.uk/bern/BBC_Pres_Christmas_1986.mp4" target="_blank">http://www.tech-ops.co.uk/bern/BBC_Pres_Christmas_1986.mp4</a><br>
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Happy Christmas 2018<br>
<br>
Bernie<br>
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