Alternative Sources
Transferred some material for digital conversion of the next few flagship "Tape and Record Show" episodes from the Tape and Record Show Enterprises archives this evening, but not the "actual completed episodes".
As I've mentioned in these posts before, the "flagship" show started before anyone else was in the "organization", and mainly consisted of records and TV and movie audio soundtracks for the first three years or so (I was 13/14 years old the first "season"), the TV soundtracks were recorded on a monophonic portable cassette recorder with a microphone held up to the TV speaker. I had no way of duplicating cassettes at the time, so I'd switch out tapes for each segment when I would listen to the "broadcasts". Naturally, after 42 years, some original audio cassettes have "vanished" or were labeled so lamely(my fault) they couldn't be easily found. My written records of the contents of the "episodes" still exist intact however.
The material I extracted this evening was from "alternate sources" for the later conversions of complete episodes I'll do in the next few evenings. So far, most of the audio I've gotten from DVDs I've bought over the years, but one episode of an old TV show, which has yet to be released on DVD, I had to get from "Dailymotion". Funny that whoever uploaded the obvious 16mm copy of the syndicated episode used an old, faded print, which would be close to my original audio cassette sound quality anyway... and their video was mirrored, guessing to avoid "content detection".
Fun Fact: For all the TV episodes, records, movie shorts, etc, which were on those early episodes, I HAVE located some "obscure" material which can't be found elsewhere (so far) in the cassette archives to complete the compilation of the next few episodes of "The Tape and Record Show" in their entirety.
As I've mentioned in these posts before, the "flagship" show started before anyone else was in the "organization", and mainly consisted of records and TV and movie audio soundtracks for the first three years or so (I was 13/14 years old the first "season"), the TV soundtracks were recorded on a monophonic portable cassette recorder with a microphone held up to the TV speaker. I had no way of duplicating cassettes at the time, so I'd switch out tapes for each segment when I would listen to the "broadcasts". Naturally, after 42 years, some original audio cassettes have "vanished" or were labeled so lamely(my fault) they couldn't be easily found. My written records of the contents of the "episodes" still exist intact however.
The material I extracted this evening was from "alternate sources" for the later conversions of complete episodes I'll do in the next few evenings. So far, most of the audio I've gotten from DVDs I've bought over the years, but one episode of an old TV show, which has yet to be released on DVD, I had to get from "Dailymotion". Funny that whoever uploaded the obvious 16mm copy of the syndicated episode used an old, faded print, which would be close to my original audio cassette sound quality anyway... and their video was mirrored, guessing to avoid "content detection".
Fun Fact: For all the TV episodes, records, movie shorts, etc, which were on those early episodes, I HAVE located some "obscure" material which can't be found elsewhere (so far) in the cassette archives to complete the compilation of the next few episodes of "The Tape and Record Show" in their entirety.