Esteemed ex-colleague Jerry Clegg recently appeared in a "Birmingham City University" feature on North Region TV OB unit CMCR 9.

Jerry has been part of a team restoring the BBC TV Scanner to as near as possible its original condition.

Many years of painstaking research have been carried out and, where possible, original parts have been used.

The scanner which spent part of its BBC history in The Midland region, ended up in Manchester as part of the large OB department.

Jerry describes the various departments accommodated in the scanner- Sound, Production and Vision, and demonstrates (among other things) what a Studer A62 ¼" tape machine looks like (for those that remember "tape"!

Jerry fails to describe the notorious line-identification tape located above the Studer.

http://vimeo.com/65449462

As Jerry reminisces about the sound department, in the second video, the owner of the vehicle (Steve Harris) describes the Vision section and the ethos of the preservation of this historic piece of broadcasting equipment.

http://vimeo.com/57283565

A brief sequence of stills here:-
http://vimeo.com/54038291
shows the dreadful state the scanner was in before the repairs and rebuild commenced.

At the same event, Malcolm Carr demonstrated an EMI 2001 Studio camera.
http://vimeo.com/56213499

These videos are sourced from:-
http://www.pebblemill.org/


(Courtesy of www.bcu.ac.uk)