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#25 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 04, 2013, 08:45:17 pm

Or at least make them easily available on web, eg you tube.


I can do this if it's useful - I will delete them if asked by content owners, Ron etc

noticed that the volume is rather quiet - I'll sort that before putting it up
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#26 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 04, 2013, 09:31:27 pm
Very useful!

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#27 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 04, 2013, 09:49:23 pm

Or at least make them easily available on web, eg you tube.


I can do this if it's useful - I will delete them if asked by content owners, Ron etc

noticed that the volume is rather quiet - I'll sort that before putting it up
that would be great lagers

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#28 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 04, 2013, 09:56:46 pm
noticed that the volume is rather quiet - I'll sort that before putting it up

won't have time to do the volume and re-render - will just put them up as they are

uploading - will be done by morning

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#29 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 04, 2013, 10:19:46 pm
Cheers for that Mr Lager sir! Should have done that myself I guess.

Shall be call today the official UKB Big Ron day?!?  :w00t:

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#30 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 07:22:53 am
here we go






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#31 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 08:47:13 am
if anyone fancies writing a bit of info about who when etc the films were made/broadcast I'll stick the info on youtube
- or links to relevant info, of course
I feel a bit of a twat sticking them up without proper credits, but Ceebeebies and Skyrim users have been taking up most of the time on HAL9000 - leaving me to do my bits in a rush

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#32 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 09:40:59 am
Thanks

top marks to everyone involved. Top job.

Checked them on you tube, good quality too.

Can we also scare up the other 2 episodes of rock athlettv series as well from somewhere?

I shouldn't think anyone would want them taken down, it's not like they are commercially available, and i can't imagine the BBC rerunning it any time soon.

Cheers.

Ps thanks for the offer metalarms. I should be able to tape em myself now.

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#33 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 11:26:08 am
Rock Athlete, lovely stuff. Nice commentary. 25:07  :punk:

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#34 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 11:32:07 am
By 'eck!

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#35 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 11:57:58 am
By 'eck!

Quite. Was Lord really filmed in one take? I found the close-ups of Ron's face on the upper section, on a proper first ascent looking at a proper fall, considerably more intense than anything one sees in moden sport climbing films.

I did a double take when I saw Chris Gibb using a waist belay - I thought everyone was using sticht plates by 1979?

Found the casual solo of Vector in the other film pretty cool too.

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#36 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 12:03:53 pm

Quite. Was Lord really filmed in one take? I found the close-ups of Ron's face on the upper section, on a proper first ascent looking at a proper fall, considerably more intense than anything one sees in moden sport climbing films.

No, I think he wrote in his recent biography that he climbed it some 20 times or so on the day of filming as they only had one camera (DISCLAIMER : I may be wrong!)

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#37 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 12:17:21 pm
Fantastic stuff! Thanks to everyone involved!!

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#38 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 12:35:12 pm

Quite. Was Lord really filmed in one take? I found the close-ups of Ron's face on the upper section, on a proper first ascent looking at a proper fall, considerably more intense than anything one sees in moden sport climbing films.

No, I think he wrote in his recent biography that he climbed it some 20 times or so on the day of filming as they only had one camera (DISCLAIMER : I may be wrong!)

I thought it was filmed as-was for the FA but the camera ran out of film at he top so they had to go back a few months later to refilm the top section.  I think I read that in a Sid Perou interview/article. 

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#39 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 12:37:23 pm
Fantastic stuff! Thanks to everyone involved!!

+1 - a triumph for the collective force that is UKB.

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#40 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 12:46:23 pm

Quite. Was Lord really filmed in one take? I found the close-ups of Ron's face on the upper section, on a proper first ascent looking at a proper fall, considerably more intense than anything one sees in moden sport climbing films.

No, I think he wrote in his recent biography that he climbed it some 20 times or so on the day of filming as they only had one camera (DISCLAIMER : I may be wrong!)

rings a bell

different length hair or something?

I thought it was filmed as-was for the FA but the camera ran out of film at he top so they had to go back a few months later to refilm the top section.  I think I read that in a Sid Perou interview/article.

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#41 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 12:49:34 pm
They are really great. Very different to modern films but still really captivating. The waist belay on Lord of the Flies was a total double take for me too.

It's hilarious how he keeps calling his wife 'lass'. The voiceovers were a total throwback too. Reminded me of the Jim Jewell film which has one of my favourite quotes - the solo climber answers to no one!

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#42 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 12:51:36 pm
Yep hair an inch longer & trundled block missing

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#43 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 01:27:38 pm
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#44 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 01:42:25 pm
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#45 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 02:01:05 pm
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#46 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 04:53:40 pm
I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've seen the entire film since 1980.  Like meeting an old girl-friend there is a worry that reality will be a disappointment compared with the memory.  Rock Athlete still scrubs up pretty well though doesn't she?

Pedants like me will point out the continuity errors.  The Autumn footage has duller lighting, Ron's hair is longer and the final boulder has gone. tc can probably tell the full tale of the latter's disappearance. I'm not sure about the waist versus sticht plate belay, both were in use at the time, but it's all from the autumn footage and the rope breaking banter is just a tiny bit forced.  A little Yorkshire competitive machismo perhaps?

Wonderful stuff, it put me off trying the route for years, too late now. 
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February 05, 2013, 04:55:28 pm
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#48 Re: wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 05:50:11 pm
Why the full stops, are they a hint that the thread has run it's course and there's nothing more to say? 

Full stop.

The End.

Show's over.

Nothing more to see here.

Move along...


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#49 wanted - rock athlete TV series
February 05, 2013, 09:07:48 pm
Superb! Qualidy is fine too. Brilliant job all concerned.

 

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