'Videos of the Day' an ongoing thread

Gnomey · 10-02-2005, 07:13 AM

Nice video Roy.

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Originally Posted by Royzee617

Finally, we came across a nice feature on the National Geographic site yesterday. They had a webcam set up by a watering hole in Botswana. fascinating to watch 'live' birdies, deer, etc coming down for a drink and squabbling etc. Better than TV!

http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/n...a/wildcam.html

I dunno what the time difference is. You yanks will have to get up early or something! If you are an insomniac you will love it! So noisy too.

I have seen it before and it is cool though not quite as good as actually being there

Royzee617 · 10-02-2005, 08:50 AM

Nah, I would rather be here in sunny, cool, no-flies UK!

Wonder if they will ever set up a similar webacm: underwater, at Duxford etc., or a nudist camp?

Gnomey · 10-02-2005, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Royzee617

Nah, I would rather be here in sunny, cool, no-flies UK!

Wonder if they will ever set up a similar webacm: underwater, at Duxford etc., or a nudist camp?

I wouldn't.

Maybe they will lets wait and see.

trackend · 10-02-2005, 09:38 AM

Heres a real rough digi cam clip and a couple of snaps from Londons Oxford street yesterday an event was held to get visitors returning to London shops after the recent bombs although it seemed to be more of an act of defiance in the end.
Croydon Steel Orchestra is made up of local kids from the poorer parts of London (they where bloody good too)

Royzee617 · 10-02-2005, 11:08 AM

Wow! Amazing pix! And video! What were they playing? Sounds familiar. Not your usual fare for a stell band. A bit like Apocalyptica doing Metallica on cellos etc.

Did you make the clip?

trackend · 10-02-2005, 12:41 PM

Yes (cheers for the compliment Roy) with my old pocket Fuji stills cam thats why its only mpeg quality

Royzee617 · 10-02-2005, 01:34 PM

Pretty good. The Duxford clips here were made using my old Sony analog Camcorder. I have a DV cam now and it is amazing under the right conditions. We went to see Otway, Wilko and The Hamsters last Friday and the results are great so I might post a bit of the gig here next week.

trackend · 10-02-2005, 01:42 PM

please do Roy Ive up rated too 2meg on my connection so its fairly quick now at down loading fair size files

Royzee617 · 10-02-2005, 03:27 PM

Royzee617 · 10-02-2005, 04:09 PM

3 decades ago the BBC screened a great series called The Secret War. Never been seen on the box since for shame.
Here is a bit to whet your appetite. You see the RAF getting ready for a raid and various bits of the German defence. Thi is a large Divx file zipped for your pleasure.

Royzee617 · 10-03-2005, 10:31 AM

Here are some clips showing them starting up the F4U - not as easy as it might seem, here you will see flames emerging from its huge radial engine being beaten out by a ground staff chappie's t-shirt! It provoked the arrival of the museum's fire brigade. No doubt they were bored.

It was not easy to film, one had to be patient, lots of false starts etc. So I split it into three or more.

trackend · 10-03-2005, 03:35 PM

Bloody brilliant Roy, I remember the series but not that episode i must have been on nights that week.
It really shows the battle between the boffins that raged on through out the war. I have never seen the colour RAF footage before & that Mossie night fighter sound recording is classic.
Thanks for the reminder Roy i may well send off for the series Im sure it must be about on Net.

Great clip guys even though its large its well worth downloading.

that Corsair reminds me of Flight of the Pheonix when Jimmy Stewart stuggles with the Kaufmann starter to get the old bird fired up
Actualy Roy Im back to Duxford on the 16th to catch the last air show of the year so Ill have another shot at getting some video hopefully with more success.(weather permiting)

Royzee617 · 10-04-2005, 11:38 AM

You may not be able to find the Secret War on Amazon etc. As I said it is one of those doc series that has kind of been forgotten - there is a great book on which it is based (or vice-versa) around too BTW. I bought it on EBay a while back for about a tenner (quid) but I saw one go last week for double that...
So I might bung up some other clips from it... great footage of the Gigant getting aloft etc. rockets ablaze and 110s wobbling about.

As regards Duxford me being a cheapskate I went the day before the actual show - that's how I got footage of the Spits etc arriving.

Royzee617 · 10-04-2005, 11:41 AM

Here's the next two in the sequence.

And two bigger better res files to complete it... as the bent wing bird gets airborne. As before Divx is zipped and needs Divx player to view... worth it...

Gnomey · 10-04-2005, 12:02 PM

Nice videos Roy!