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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pres@tech-ops.co.uk
href="mailto:pres@tech-ops.co.uk">Bernard Newnham via Pres</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 30, 2018 3:16 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pres@tech-ops.co.uk
href="mailto:pres@tech-ops.co.uk">pres@tech-ops.co.uk</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Pres] BBC Presentation Christmas 1986</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">A long time ago, in a galaxy far far
away......<BR><BR>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><BR>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><BR>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
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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><BR>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><BR></FONT><FONT
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">32
years late - <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.tech-ops.co.uk/bern/BBC_Pres_Christmas_1986.mp4">http://www.tech-ops.co.uk/bern/BBC_Pres_Christmas_1986.mp4</A><BR><BR>Happy
Christmas 2018<BR><BR>Bernie<BR></FONT></FONT>
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