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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: Level42 on July 30, 2007, 03:56:42 pm
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Wait until 1:42.......Lunar Lander using a light pen ::)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kQUEBkM23VU
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Wow...the world's largest "Little Professor" :)
I wonder where that video footage was shot. The Speak & Spell and PET were entirely in English. I'm pretty sure the PET models had their name changed for European release.
The black-and-white footage makes it look much older than it really is. From the technology shown it's got to be very late 70's.
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I wonder where that video footage was shot.
Not sure..... but my girlfriend translated most of it for me...... she's Dutch. ???
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Actualy, this was a film. Shot in The Hague, The Netherlands (and as mentioned in 1979 !)
Made by "Polygoon journaal", a company that used to make "journals/news" movies that were shown in cinema's before the main film. Hell, I even remember that they were still in business, and seeing those short films when going to the movies, but they kept it up pretty long here (I think into the mid 80's).
Because of the competition of TV news, they changed the subjects to things that rarely got in the news in those days.
The speaking voice is very famous here, I think most people above age 35 will recognize it.
I'm not sure why it was still in Black & White. I guess maybe it was cheaper still, or they just were hanging on to the past....
All those short movies are a wealth of background information of what was going on in a certain period of time.
I even remember that they were filming at the Dutch national videogame (Atari Centipede) championships in 1983 that I was competing in. I've already asked with the institute that keeps these films, but they say they don't know it......sad and strange :S
http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/template_subnav.jsp?navname=collecties_categorie_polygoon&category=collectie_informatie
Sadly, Dutch only....
More films from Polygoon:
http://uk.youtube.com/user/Beeldengeluid