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So, am I the only one.....?

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Stanislav

We've pretty much all confessed to being TV Geeks here -- most of us wear the moniker as a badge of honor.

But...have I gone too far?

I've downloaded and saved countless YouTube clips. Station IDs, sign-on and sign-off excerpts, promos, local news excerpts, classic commercials, foul-up announcements, etc. I extract the audio tracks, edit them into short excerpts, assemble them in more or less random order, and have created a good number of mash-ups that I now keep on my mp3 player. When I am out and about, I then delight in treating my aural senses to a kaleidoscopic melange of odd, varied, era-jumping, miscellaneous bits and pieces of historic TV audio.

Please tell me I'm not the only one. I don't have insurance and can't afford analysis.....
 
Stanislav said:
We've pretty much all confessed to being TV Geeks here -- most of us wear the moniker as a badge of honor.

But...have I gone too far?

I've downloaded and saved countless YouTube clips. Station IDs, sign-on and sign-off excerpts, promos, local news excerpts, classic commercials, foul-up announcements, etc. I extract the audio tracks, edit them into short excerpts, assemble them in more or less random order, and have created a good number of mash-ups that I now keep on my mp3 player. When I am out and about, I then delight in treating my aural senses to a kaleidoscopic melange of odd, varied, era-jumping, miscellaneous bits and pieces of historic TV audio.

Please tell me I'm not the only one. I don't have insurance and can't afford analysis.....
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I've done the same with alot of radio stuff.
 
Sounds cool !!! :) Isn't it fun putting such stuff together?

Last year I did something TV related that made some of my own family thought I was nuts ;D

Way back in 1978 my dad bought a video camera and thanks to his decision I have 30 years of home videos. Rather than having a third party transfering the home vidos to DVD, I did the job myself. However rather than using generic music, I used the then-current top tunes in sync with vids done at the time they were taped. Example..a 1980 clip of me riding my big wheel..the song used as background was Leo Sayer's "More Than I Can Say"..and scenes of my sister and her ex-husband...song used Cliff Richard's "We Dont Talk Anymore". They divorced in 1979 and they havent spoke to each other since..well 1979 !!!

After spending so many hours over the years watching all those retro specials on TV...I made this like one of those retro specials. Titles and all.."30 Years of Leach TV". Actually I thought I did a better job at doing this than Dick Clark did for that American Bandstand's 50th TV special that aired a number of years back. And like Clark, my DVD had its share of celebrities, those who were in my hometown over the years and thanks to my dad ( and myself ) I got'em on tape while they where here...and the funny thing is none of them knew they were being taped, many of these scenes are so ironic today. Examples...

*Tom Bosley asking where the local strip bar is? ( 1978 )
*Mary Tyler Moore saying "..oh man..I am so f***ing board !!! ( 1993 )
*Robert Wagner cracking "...all the chicks still think I am hot....take that Rob Lowe" ( 1985 )
*a pissed Adam West "...I am way too damn old for this Batman sh*t" ( 1995 )
*the towns people booing Wayne Newton ( 2007 )
*somebody throws an egg at Boss Hogg/Sorrell Brooke ( 1987 )
*Gary Collins turning down a beer saying "..no thanks..I don't drink" ( 1988 )

and there were two scenes of celebrities caught picking their nose. Who? Hal Linden and Katie Couric !! Not at the same time though.

90 minutes of smoewhat "family" TV LOL

My wife and I spent two weeks putting this together and we had a ball doing it too.
 
Where is your hometown? Obviously it's big enough for at leat one strip bar, but doesn't have enough going on to keep Mary Tyler Moore intellectually stimulated.
 
I will confess that in the days before YouTube and high-speed connections I actually paid for such material on VHS tapes, which places me several steps above you on the Straightjacket Scale.
 
When my laptop was working, I've downloaded a few YouTube clips, as it pertained to Classic TV. I had a few of the WGN movie bumpers (Weekend Movie, WGN Presents late movie) and KCOP station ID from 1978. Probably one of my favorite clips, because I like the music, is WJ(K)W's City Camera News. Another cool clip is from WBAL-TV's newscast from the late '60s, where the news set sort of resembled a game show.

There's a YouTube poster, MSTS1, who actually re-created station IDs from various Boston and New York City TV stations from the 1960's, including one from WNBC.
 
You're NOT the only one!

Check these out gang!

Tony Sands WLWT meteorologist with the only weather radar for Cincy,Indy,Dayton and COW-lumbus! circa 1955 (?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9M_0Gsrmzk&NR=1


WLWC sign-off (original audio w/logos from 50s and 60s and its first test pattern.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aEOMeGj648


The infamous (and scary) quasi art deco-ish REVUE logo with MCA's "filmreel from hell" (AAAAAHHHHHH!!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w68GzSlq9AI


Hollywood Television Service slowly zooming "antenna globe" logo
(remember all those Republic serials and B westerns you saw on TV in the 50s?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fx-OkPLExw
 
Definitely not crazy....When I first had a computer with a CD Burner in it (back in 2000), I downloaded TONS and TONS of TV themes from the '80s SuperSite and downloaded a program called .RA to .WAV to convert it to a .WAV file to use as an audio track, where I would listen to it on a burned CD in the car.

I love looking at old promos/station/network ID's on YouTube. Especially the CBS "This program is presented in color"..
 
kirkiefan said:
You're NOT the only one!

Check these out gang!

Tony Sands WLWT meteorologist with the only weather radar for Cincy,Indy,Dayton and COW-lumbus! circa 1955 (?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9M_0Gsrmzk&NR=1


WLWC sign-off (original audio w/logos from 50s and 60s and its first test pattern.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aEOMeGj648


The infamous (and scary) quasi art deco-ish REVUE logo with MCA's "filmreel from hell" (AAAAAHHHHHH!!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w68GzSlq9AI


Hollywood Television Service slowly zooming "antenna globe" logo
(remember all those Republic serials and B westerns you saw on TV in the 50s?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fx-OkPLExw
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Classic stuff--thanks.
 
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