LATEST News - AUGUST 2010
'Home Movie Roadshow' on the

 Diverse productions new programme called
'The Home Movie Roadshow' has just started on
 BBC 2  Friday 6th August at 9.00pm.

This five part series, presented by Dan Cruickshank and Kirsty Wark will show 100 years of Britons' lives though the private collections of home movies and the history of Britain through film.

We were contacted by Diverse a year ago to research and supply selected film footage to be used in the programme with full permission from our customers.



'Down the Line'
Kingfisher Television, award-winning producers of 'Tales from the Country' and 'Safari Park' were commissioned by the BBC to make a documentary called 'Down the Line'.

The documentary, fronted by Edwina Curry explored the impact of the notorious Beeching Report on the railways back in the 1960's and included Standard 8mm film of historic steam engines. We transferred the films for Kingfisher Television to digital videotape, which was added to the programme. The documentary was broadcast on the 26th October 2008 on BBC1.

To see more of their work please go to www.kingfishertv.co.uk

Channel 4

Channel 4 is known for their film shorts seasons. Award winning documentary filmmakers, Century Films had produced a number of new Super 8mm films, which we transferred to Dvcam digital tape. These films were then edited into some of these film shorts broadcasted on Channel 4.

Sotherbys auctions

Films of historical or collectable value need to be viewed at auction. Sotherbys in London required some 8mm cine film taken of the Beatles to be transferred to videotape for preview. The film, taken by a keen fan, showed the fab four arriving outside the BBC Paris radio studio in an old Bedford van and as usual, smiling and joking in front of the camera. We also transferred film taken in Wales of the Beatles on location during the making of the Magical Mystery Tour TV programme.

Other films for auction have included original film taken during the Vietnam war by an American soldier.