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    I thought this might be of interest a new tv channel for the over 50s which amongst its offerings is going to show old films.



    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...-over-50s.html

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    the channel will show repeats of Old Grey Whistle Test and The Tube, as well as old films such as Brief Encounter......



    Many thanks !


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    Fingers crossed for this. What we don't need is another disappearance like Film 24...



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    Thanks! Sounds good!



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    Thanks for the info ronald colman, sounds like my cuppa tea, but the proof will be in the supping.



    Though I'd refute with the journalist that Bohemian Rhapsody was the first promotional pop video, I can think of a couple of 60's ones that are not run of the mill TV performances.

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    Reminds me a bit of VH1 years ago when there were shows fronted by Mark Ellen and Richard Allinson. Youtube has eliminated some of the appeal of music tv, and YT is chock full already of user-created clips made with old footage.

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    sounds great

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    This is the new channel co-run by Paul Gambaccini. One of their ideas is to make new videos for songs which didn't have them - didn't DLT do something similar a while back?

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    name='didi-5' date='27 June 2010 - 07:22 PM' timestamp='1277662921' post='445140']

    This is the new channel co-run by Paul Gambaccini. One of their ideas is to make new videos for songs which didn't have them - didn't DLT do something similar a while back?


    I believe that was the Golden Oldie Picture Show.

    The new channel sounds just my cup of tea.

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    name='Mark O' date='27 June 2010 - 06:38 PM' timestamp='1277660312' post='445111']

    Thanks for the info ronald colman, sounds like my cuppa tea, but the proof will be in the supping.



    Though I'd refute with the journalist that Bohemian Rhapsody was the first promotional pop video, I can think of a couple of 60's ones that are not run of the mill TV performances.


    Absolutely Mark - The Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and Procal Harum's 'Homberg' are two brilliant shorts that spring immediately to mind.

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    name='Number Six' date='27 June 2010 - 10:06 PM' timestamp='1277672773' post='445225']

    Absolutely Mark - The Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever'


    I suspect The Beatles 'Rain' must be one of the first true promos. Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues was earlier but more of an outtake.

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    This channel sounds excellent!



    Just the kind of thing we need on tv, a nice bit of nostalgia and a change from all the awful reality shows and endless reruns of the same recent films and shows over and over again.

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    Sounds good. Would like to see some of the Tube and the Old Grey Whistle Test again

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    name='ronald colman 1' date='27 June 2010 - 06:04 PM' timestamp='1277658248' post='445091']

    I thought this might be of interest a new tv channel for the over 50s which amongst its offerings is going to show old films.



    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...-over-50s.html
    Cool, will cure my insomnia!

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    I'm actually quite irritated at the demographic being targeted again. But market research doesn't understand the concept of something appealing to a subset of all ages. So this is an over-50s channel. Does that mean that I shouldn't be watching whereas my husband who is in the right age group but not interested in the channel should?!

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    Ideal for me too, but ONLY me since I'm in the second half of the fifties age-range which makes me wonder if I'm being patronised for that reason.



    Is it going to be just a slippers-and-pipe channel, a theme-park of the brain maybe, where younger people can look in to see what their (grand)dads were looking at in the 1960's? Or are we going to get to see how The Forsyte Saga morphed into "The Wire" four decades later?



    Or am I turning into the foring old bart destiny promises me?

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    name='DB7' date='27 June 2010 - 11:13 PM' timestamp='1277676819' post='445242']

    I suspect The Beatles 'Rain' must be one of the first true promos. Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues was earlier but more of an outtake.
    Only if you discount music videos - well, films - made for video Jukeboxes from the 1940's, or films made to lipsynch with records, or even phonograph cylinders, like Gibbons' Phono-Bio-Tableaux as early as 1900.

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    name='DB7' date='27 June 2010 - 11:13 PM' timestamp='1277676819' post='445242']

    I suspect The Beatles 'Rain' must be one of the first true promos. Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues was earlier but more of an outtake.
    Yes-definitely! 'rain' and 'paperback writer' both feature macca with a broken front tooth from a scooter crash! Or alternatively,it was an actor playing paul as he had recently died!!!!!!????!!!!

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    I was going to start a thread on this one but I obviously get up too late so have been well beaten to it. What is interesting is that they state that 40% of the programming will be original.

    I'm looking forward to it, I just hope that, with people like Gambaccinni involved, it wont just be continuous pop music, some of us like other types of music!

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    Looking forward to news of Vintage TV. However I only have freeview so I won't be watching...



    As for Bohemian Rhapsody being the first pop video. I think it's called that because it was intentionally meant to be shown as part of the record's release. I don't think, at the time, they could have replicated that live on ToTP. It also made such an impact and brought the concept of the 'pop video' into everyday language.



    But yes there had been promo films and pop videos before. David Bowie'e Life On Mars, etc.

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