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retronewfoundland @[email protected]

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My tape collection has lots of stuff.


Welcoem to posts!!

in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c

retronewfoundland
Posted 1 week ago

A quick memo to Ray Glasser ‪@videoholicreturns‬ ‪@videoholic2000s‬ : I have just started watching the “Search” series, starting with the pilot which used the “Probe” name before changing it as it got picked up as a regular series.

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retronewfoundland
Posted 3 months ago

By the time you are out of bed on Tuesday morning (February 25), I will have posted the first 3 episodes of "Writer's Realm", a 1987 educational series consisting of 15 episodes in total, over at archive dot org. The plan is to have the entire series posted by the end of Friday night. Stay tuned.

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retronewfoundland
Posted 3 months ago

Doing a little work ahead of a batch of uploads you'll find soon at archive dot org. Stay tuned!

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retronewfoundland
Posted 4 months ago

This is a "future considerations" idea to ‪@ShiksaWithChutzpah1‬ - if only there were someone who would be "in the neighborhood/area" of sorts and that person had working video recorders to do any necessary dubs. Of course, I wouldn't be it as I'm quite a long distance out, and I don't have any Betamax machines anyway. Generally speaking, nearest Betamax user to me is in Nova Scotia. (The one non-VHS tape I did have was sent off to be dubbed years ago and I received a few copies on DVD of what was dubbed.)

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retronewfoundland
Posted 4 months ago

I'm not sure if ‪@ShiksaWithChutzpah1‬ still checks out YouTube at all despite not posting in years, but I do have to inquire about the Cinema 13 stuff from 1981, notably about inquiring if it might be possible at all to upgrade the quality of the excerpts posted long ago. I am interested in seeing that happen, but I know it's also possible what I have typed here might not get far, in a way.

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retronewfoundland
Posted 4 months ago

Something I want to see if ‪@wmbrown6‬ knows about - it involves the TV cameras used by Radio-Canada in Montreal in the late '60s, for I had a chance to look at a couple of episodes of Les belles histoires des pays d'en haut at the end of a free preview of ICI ARTV (increasing my count of surviving color episodes from 56 as of a few years ago to 58, with two more to get in a future free preview). The quality of the picture looked good considering it was a 1960s production that had made the jump to color during 1967, so I wonder which manufacturer's cameras were used then. Or anyone with a knowledge of ‪@RadioCanada‬ history might help me out? Was it RCA? Norelco? Something else?

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retronewfoundland
Posted 8 months ago

Uploaded to archive dot org: "Eight is Enough: A Family Reunion", originally aired October 18, 1987 on NBC, and shown on TNN on July 25, 2000: https://archive.org/details/eight-is-enough-a-family-reunion-1987-10-18

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retronewfoundland
Posted 8 months ago

Going to try an overnight upload to archive dot org. If all goes well, you'll know what it'll be.

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retronewfoundland
Posted 8 months ago

Coming soon this week, a new video to my archive dot org page. That's all I'll say for now, but you will be in for a treat.

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retronewfoundland
Posted 1 year ago

For ‪@TelevisionDetroit‬​​ : What did WDIV use as their Sunday afternoon movie banner by the Spring of 1986 (when there was no football)? While it isn't much to go on, this snapshot of a Mel Farr commercial suggests a movie ran there while over on CBS, they had the NBA All-Star Game.

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