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Author Topic: World Book Day Satellite Test Geoff Power Film Handler Posts: 38 From: Pershore, Worcs, UK Registered: Apr 2012 posted 03-07-2013 11:04 AM                    Apologies if slightly off-topic but I wondered if anyone managed to capture any of the satellite test transmission before today's World Book day feed from the QE Hall London. It was hilarious! It seems the pre-recorded loop failed, so some poor guy (a Jeremy Clarkson clone) drew the short straw of sitting in front of camera for 1 1/4 hours with a clapper board and repeating over and over the venue, date and event info. He was bored witless, pissed off and possibly hung over. Kept mixing up his lines, checking phone messages, forgetting clapper board, scratching crotch ... it would make a YouTube sensation!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-07-2013 12:35 PM                        Oh, please let someone have worked out a way of recording that from the feed! Almost on a par with the famous (but rarely played and sadly, not leaked to YT thus far) recording of Churchill's 'fight them on the beaches' speech. In those days microphones weren't allowed in Parliament, so he had to make the speech there and then go to the BBC and do it again for the record (literally - onto an acetate disc). On this one, he worked up to the grand punchline '...their finest hour!', but no-one told the recording engineer that he'd finished, and so the disc continued spinning. We then hear the sound of a chair scraping against the floor as he got up, and then faintly, 'And of course if they do come, we'll have to fight them with beer bottles, because it's all we've got left. [pause, more scuffling noise] WHERE'S THAT SCOTCH?' ... recording ends.  |  IP: Logged Elise Brandt Expert Film Handler Posts: 160 From: Kuusankoski, FIN/ Kouvola, Finland Registered: Dec 2009 posted 03-08-2013 12:56 AM                     Oh fun we had a similar incident here, with a concenrt being broadcasted live to cinemas in Finland. They had no test loop in the first place so the the first test was a guy playing out music from his cellphone the whole time, with nothing in the picture but furniture... and yes the music choices sucked. The second test was the producer of the show (I think), thankfully a funny guy, with a mike just trying his ass off to think of something to say for an hour and a half. I kept sending him emails he'd respond to on screen it was hands down the best satellite test I've done so far, easily the most entertaining.  |  IP: Logged

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