Peter Crocker
@petercrockersvs.bsky.social
Film & Video restorer. Likes all sorts of music. Fought in the last war (Save 6Music 2010). Hedgehog supporter. Owned by Tedbert the Cocker Spaniel.
Perhaps something to do with the BBC Written Archive Centre.
October 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Perhaps something to do with the BBC Written Archive Centre.
At least the process has a familiar ring to it.
October 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
At least the process has a familiar ring to it.
Soon you’ll be floating around like cinders in Spain.
October 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Soon you’ll be floating around like cinders in Spain.
You gotta have a system.
October 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
You gotta have a system.
Down with this sort of thing.
September 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Down with this sort of thing.
The full negative effect was achieved on the mixer as Clive attests (and could be mixed variably via a fader lever). The camera tubes used in b/w studios would invert around highlights if overloaded (e.g. shooting at a very bright light) but this was a technical artefact rather than artistic choice.
September 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The full negative effect was achieved on the mixer as Clive attests (and could be mixed variably via a fader lever). The camera tubes used in b/w studios would invert around highlights if overloaded (e.g. shooting at a very bright light) but this was a technical artefact rather than artistic choice.
Right at the bottom of the list of Banks, after Jeff, Williams & Glyns, aeroplane, and the one-eyed goalie from Stoke.
September 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Right at the bottom of the list of Banks, after Jeff, Williams & Glyns, aeroplane, and the one-eyed goalie from Stoke.
Have a good day old chum. The strongest bonds are forged through adversity.
September 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Have a good day old chum. The strongest bonds are forged through adversity.
Just a remnant of the technology of the time. Vision mixers could cut on field 2 but PAL VT edits (whether physical or electronic) would always cut on field 1.
September 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Just a remnant of the technology of the time. Vision mixers could cut on field 2 but PAL VT edits (whether physical or electronic) would always cut on field 1.
It’s a long time since I did it, but my recollection is that it’s definitely a deliberate effect. Very subtle (arguably too subtle unless they worried people might start fiddling with their horizontal holds!) but too localised, persistent and targeted to be a random fault.
August 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It’s a long time since I did it, but my recollection is that it’s definitely a deliberate effect. Very subtle (arguably too subtle unless they worried people might start fiddling with their horizontal holds!) but too localised, persistent and targeted to be a random fault.
A very thoughtful and inventive director and a lovely man to boot.
August 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A very thoughtful and inventive director and a lovely man to boot.
He was “Genial” Sgt Major Grout in Camberwick Green.
August 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
He was “Genial” Sgt Major Grout in Camberwick Green.
I especially loved the early days (pre-2006) when there were few listeners and it was so lovingly ramshackle, you could barely go a day without an interviewee dropping an F-bomb (with perfunctory presenter apology for any offence) and no-one cared one iota.
August 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I especially loved the early days (pre-2006) when there were few listeners and it was so lovingly ramshackle, you could barely go a day without an interviewee dropping an F-bomb (with perfunctory presenter apology for any offence) and no-one cared one iota.
Even at the age of 7, Junior Showtime was an absolute last resort if there was nothing on the BBC, it was pissing down outside, no homework to do and you’d read The Beano. And even then, after a dose of Glyn Poole and Bobby Bennett, it would take all weekend to feel clean again.
August 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Even at the age of 7, Junior Showtime was an absolute last resort if there was nothing on the BBC, it was pissing down outside, no homework to do and you’d read The Beano. And even then, after a dose of Glyn Poole and Bobby Bennett, it would take all weekend to feel clean again.
Up The Runaways.
August 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Up The Runaways.
Standard by Shiremoor.
August 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Standard by Shiremoor.
Standard by St James.
August 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Standard by St James.
But where is Kerr on the Fowler Scale (ere long the gold standard of schlongitude)?
August 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
But where is Kerr on the Fowler Scale (ere long the gold standard of schlongitude)?
And as The Mekons helpfully informed us in “Ghosts of American Astronauts”, up in the hills above Bradford there’s even a napalm factory.
July 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
And as The Mekons helpfully informed us in “Ghosts of American Astronauts”, up in the hills above Bradford there’s even a napalm factory.
Did they phone the police? I mean, surely it’s the Barugh secret distress code.
July 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Did they phone the police? I mean, surely it’s the Barugh secret distress code.
It’s the microphony de nos jours.
June 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It’s the microphony de nos jours.
People who aren’t psychopaths also soon realise that, once you have personal security and comfort, accumulating chattels brings much less happiness than using the (spending) power to make good things happen to/for others.
June 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
People who aren’t psychopaths also soon realise that, once you have personal security and comfort, accumulating chattels brings much less happiness than using the (spending) power to make good things happen to/for others.
Never the same after it went solo.
June 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Never the same after it went solo.