RE: The Running Tide 10 minute filler after 1977 PBS broadcast of OL

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leebonnifield
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Thanks for searching! What you found is surely the right "Running
Tide". I don't understand the format, being only 55 minutes and 7 titles
— surely they could have fit all 15 titles on one VHS. I'm guessing
there are 15 in all because PBS used a different one after each of the
Onedin Lines in Series 1, then for series 2 they repeated from the same 15.

Without objection I'm going to try to upload the Running Tide about
crimping. It followed S1N5 "Catch as Can" where Callon tried to crimp
Baines. Technically this one is of mediocre quality, I have some
better, some worse. The topic is surprising history to me.

But not tonight, I'll need to borrow a neighbor's broadband for that 46
meg upload. To test that I know how to put a file into the files area
I'll put up an Onedin Line captcha tonight.

On 4/24/2013 1:19 AM, LambuLambu@aol.com wrote:
> Well, after plowing the net with every combination of the words I could
> think of, I finally found this:
> http://www.worldcat.org/title/running-tide/oclc/36057253. Don't know if
> that will be of much help as it's a VHS format, and only 55 minutes
> (which may cover the first 5 installments), and VHS players are hard to
> come by these days.
>
> Anyone else have any luck finding something? (No luck on Amazon or
> ebay… yet.)
>
> Dino.
>
> —–Original Message—–
> From: leebonnifield <lee78@localnet.com <mailto:lee78%40localnet.com>>
> To: shiponedingroup <shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:shiponedingroup%40yahoogroups.com>>
> Sent: Tue, Apr 23, 2013 7:53 pm
> Subject: [shiponedingroup] The Running Tide 10 minute filler after 1977
> PBS broadcast of OL
>
> (thread was "I'm new here")
> On 4/23/2013 12:34 PM, LambuLambu@aol.com <mailto:LambuLambu%40aol.com>
> wrote:
>> Wow! No PBS channel I could get aired 'The Onedin Line', much less 'The
>> Running Tide' (which sounds like some episodes I'd love to get copies
>> of!).
>
> I have retrieved 8 of them so far from the old 6-hour VHS copies of the
> older reel-to-reel recordings.
>
> The Running Tide 1 sails & ships.wmv 56,617,094
> The Running Tide 2 navigation.wmv 52,264,818
> The Running Tide 3 superstition.wmv 48,952,614
> The Running Tide 4 arts.wmv 44,848,350
> The Running Tide 5 crimping.wmv 46,112,428
> The Running Tide 6 steam.wmv 49,912,668
> The Running Tide 7 railroads.wmv 34,575,726
> The Running Tide 8 women.wmv 36,975,870
> 9 piracy
> 10 luxury steamers
> 11 seamens' duties
> 12 slave trade
> 13 medicine
> 14 US Civil War
> 15 sea chanties
>
> They are pretty poor technically, some with two sorts of tracking noise
> and muffled audio, #9 may be too jittery to bother with. # 10-15 I
> haven't attempted yet. For #1-8 I've made 640×480 WMVs, about 45 meg
> each for 10 minutes. The narration is the important part, the video is
> mostly pans and zooms of drawings. A few of my copies came out good. I
> have not searched to see if they are available in a DVD format, no doubt
> that would be better quality than my 3rd gen copies. There are no titles
> except "…the Running tide…" and end credits say only
>
> Produced by WYES New Orleans
> for SECA
> Southern Educational Communications Association
>
> I do recommend their content. Please say so if anybody finds
> commercially available copies. I probably could upload the ones I have.
>