[Tech1] Riverside - Colour - OGWT?

[Mike Giles]

Weren’t the last one or two episodes of the Forsyte Saga in colour? Or am I thinking of The Pallisers? Whichever, we were hooked on The Forsyte Saga as viewers and the strangest thing that I have found over the years since is that although the great majority, if not all of the episodes were monochrome, I remember them in colour. 

I had no involvement as I was an oik in Bristol at the time and could only wonder at the magic of it all. 

Mike G

> On 20 Mar 2021, at 23:56, David Brunt via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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> The late 1960s is a period I haven’t got a great deal of studio info on yet.
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> Vanity Fair was certainly among the earliest colour recordings in the second half of 1967, heavily promoted as the first major colour serial. Shown from the start of December.
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> The first colour dramas to air though appear to be Thirty Minute Theatre from late October onwards. Most likely either live or recorded not long before broadcast.
> https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6e56becbd1c9476ca06992b793de0c4f
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> This one seems to be war-based, which could be a possible.
> https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f6d8e274a134423bb4eb83e1f1120618
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> Early 1968 and shows like Theatre 625, Portrait of a Lady, Sherlock Holmes, Nana and others start to creep onto the schedules, often pre-recorded way in advance of transmission.
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> I wonder if that was ‘Vanity Fair’ for which I was on Grams.
> I know it was one of the first colour productions from TC6.
> Perhaps David Brunt can supply further info?
> There was also a play, where I could keep battle FX going carefully dubbed against dialogue using the PEG (Programme Effects Generator).
> Got into trouble on that one, one  of the first plays to be shot in colour from Studio TC6. Cannot remember the title.
> A World War I drama - the farmer's Army son is deployed near his dad's home, comes to visit - Dad says he'll go get a chicken for lunch, exits to farmyard, out of vision.
> I played in running footsteps, chicken squawking, then a thud.
> Director: "What the hell was that, Pat?" "Father killing lunch!"
> "Thank you, Pat, we'll let you know!"
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> Fun, in those days!
> Pat H
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