Timeless News

March 2011

 Timeless Moments wins large YMCA contract

We are very happy to have one a contract to transfer tens of thousands of feet to digital formt on behalf of the YMCA. The footage will be used by children learning to carry out video editing, there will be public screenings beginning at the end of March 2011

Great Hucklow Jubilee Film May 5th 1935 (BFI National Archive)

Record orders on the back of the BBC Home Movie Road Show

The BBC's Home Movie Roadshow - running from 6 August to 3 September 2010 on BBC2 - has re-ignited interest in the collections of home movies held by Britain's film archives and sent people scouring the countless boxes stored in attics across the UK.

These films are a vital part of the nation's film heritage and provide some of the most tangible and engaging records available to us of life in the 20th century. Importantly, the best home movies can tell far bigger and more valuable stories than the filmmakers originally intended. Timeless Moments worked with the BBC and Diverse productions along with amateur film clubs like WAVE in Long Eaton to scour the archives and bring back to life some amazing old films.

Don’t forget, if you have old cine films in your atticthe advice is to have it transferred to digital as soon as possible to ensure it’s long term survival and who knows maybe it will be your footage airing on the Home Movie Road Show next year. Call us today to find out how to transfer your films

Join us on Facebook and help Save the Nation

Our friends tend to be existing customers and amateur film makers from all over the world. We now have nearly 300 friends and this figure is rising weekly.

We are adding new footage from interesting cine films in a series of films entitled “For The Nation”. So far we have discovered what happened to Garendon Hall, how Concorde was tested in a wind tunnel, early 1960s railways stations and lots more. These films are exclusive to Facebook friends but will eventually appear on this website for posterity.

Here is an excerpt from July 2010...

To find us on facebook, simply Log into your Facebook account and then click this link: http://www.facebook.com/people/@/100000608952761

U-matic Tapes now supported

We have recently purchased a Hi-Band U-Matic tape player. Although these tapes are fairly rare some people do have them from school projects, work projects and keen amateurs. We are able to carry out all the usual transfers from the U-matic machine. Further information below.

U-matic is a videocassette format first shown by Sony in prototype in October 1969, and introduced to the market in September 1971. It was among the first video formats to contain the videotape inside a cassette, as opposed to the various open-reel formats of the time. Unlike most other cassette-based tape formats, the supply and take-up reels in the cassette worked in opposite directions during playback, fast-forward and rewind: one reel would run clockwise while the other would run counter-clockwise.....continued here

Timeless Moments Ltd appoint new forwarding agent

Timeless Moments Ltd take pleasure in welcoming our new agent in Lincolnshire. Mr Gordon Seabrook will be delighted to see you if you are in his area and wish to hand deliver your films (please call first). Gordon can be reached at:

Mr Gordon Seabrook
Cold Harbour Films
Cold Harbour
Grantham
Lincolnshire
NG31 7OX
 

Tel: 01476 576 800
Please include the order form

Customers from all other areas and by post please continue to visit the 7 Thistle Road Studio in Ilkeston

Projects

BBC1 Preserving The Past

We are currently involved in several ongoing community projects. Firstly we have been commissioned by the BBC to transfer their archive footage from 16mm and 8mm cine for Preserving The Past. This is an East Midlands Today production and should be featured in the Autumn. Take a look at the clip below of a 1928 wedding, filmed only 6 years after the introduction of 16mm film. The quality of the image is astounding, this footage was transferred on our TVT-16 telecine machine.
Dave Adams

BBC East Midlands Today - Inside Out

Another project we are working on is to resurrect the life and times of our local Stanton Iron Works which was unfortunately closed by the French owners in May 2007 but at it’s height employed 12000 local people. Footage was found in a skip no less of the plant which follows the company’s history in the 1940s right up to the 1960s, much of the footage shows the 500lb bomb making plant in 1944, when Stanton was converted from drian pipes and sewer manufacture to bombs, gun barrels and air raid shelters for the war effort. All the film found is in 16mm format. We are transferring this for the local Erewash museum over a period of around a year. Now the BBC program Inside Out has put together a short film showing the footage that Timeless Moments transferred for the Erewash museum. Actor Robert Lindsay who was born in Ilkeston retraces his steps back to his first job shovelling S**T! This program featuring footage shot inside the now mothballed plant by Timeless Moments was originally shown shown on March3rd 2009
Ian Litchfield

Click on any picture to play the film or download it from this link (right click and choose “save target as”)

 BBC 2 Nation On Film

Mr Norman Chambers, owner of Chambers Pencils in Stapleford Derbyshire, was featured on the BBC television program East Midlands Today on the 19th September this year. Norman has a large collection of cine film from as far back as the 1930’s taken by his father and showing the production of pencils in Africa right up to more modern facilities in Stapleford. Timeless Moments transferred Norman’s films last year from Cine to DVD and the BBC have used this footage for the program. To see the footage click on the Picture of The Pencil Works left. If you would like your films to be submitted to the BBC for possible inclusion in the Nation on Film programs, please write to BBC@timeless-moments.co.uk. We cannot guarantee that your film will be used and we are not privy to when they may or may not be used.
Ian Litchfield

The Way We Were
Timeless Moments has recently supplied some footage to ITV for their upcoming series entitled “The Way We Were”. We sent up some archive film of Prince Charles visiting the West Midlands in the 1960’s, Timeless Moments News Readers can see a sneak preview here.
                           Gulay Litchfield

(Note: the film is not edited. Right click for controls)