These are about 10 minutes each, 640×480 .wmv files 40-55 megabytes
When PBS broadcast Series 1 & 2 of The Onedin Line ~1977, an episode of The Running Tide filled out the hour. The numbers in the file names refer to which OL episode of Series 1 they followed. There were 15 different Running Tides for Series 1, then for series 2 PBS repeated the same 15 Running Tides.
Originally recorded on reel-to-reel from PBS broadcast ~1977
copied to 6 hour VHS ~1981
transferred to .wmv ~2012
Some VHS cassettes are better preserved than others, some of these are pretty bad. But the color is mostly sepia anyway.
— In shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com, "LambuLambu@…" <LambuLambu@…> wrote:
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> 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.
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> From: leebonnifield <lee78@…>
> To: shiponedingroup <shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tue, Apr 23, 2013 7:53 pm
> Subject: [shiponedingroup] The Running Tide 10 minute filler after 1977 PBS broadcast of OL
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> On 4/23/2013 12:34 PM, LambuLambu@… 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
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> I have retrieved 8 of them so far from the old 6-hour VHS copies of the older reel-to-reel recordings.
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> 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
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> 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
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> Southern Educational Communications Association
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> I do recommend their content. Please say so if anybody finds commercially available copies. I probably could upload the ones I have.
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