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Old 14th Mar 2018, 12:07 am   #1
dave walsh
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Default Vintage Tape Machines and Attitudes

BBC4 [not the usual CH4/5 etc started a three parter about Ruth Ellis tonight. My wife is the expert on this deep subject but a number of vintage tape recorder items make an appearance, especially half way through. Overall it illustrates the importance of social history along with the technical side. One reviewer was irritated by the film insert technique but some of these [although a bit earlier than 50's] are quite illustrative of prevailing attitudes and a 1957 BBC film re child protection is a very good match.

The point is well made that small domestic [3"] r to r and cassette recorders were coming in from the mid fifties onwards and a subject of great interest [If you could get hold of them]. A surprising amount of info is still on tape 60 years later. As with the recent thread about recovered video from congealed film [Morecambe and Wise Recovery] this is, IMHO, really gripping forensic archaeology/investigation!

Dave W

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