Tavia wrote:
To be fair, the shorts I'm thinking of were communist hack promotional stuff about hospitals and bricklaying
Ahhh... Poles... bricklaying... can Man of Marble be far behind? I really liked that film, though it's Wajda not Kieslowski. *Who passed the brick?*.
Neil wrote:
B7 was pre-video, just about (I got the 4th Season on this thing called 'Betamax' which greying Lysters might remember),
and Julia responded:
but it *was* possible, just not widespread.
Interesting, I thought it was a bit more common than that. When season four was repeated (when was that? 1982?), I was so afraid that this might be the last chance to retain anything of "Blake" that I taped it on an audio cassette (just by sitting the machine in front of the TV - there's a bit lost in the middle where I had to turn the tape over). But I remember thinking as I did it that if I weren't so backward on the technological front I'd have been able to tape the whole thing with pictures. My family were always slow to catch up with TV technology; I think I did see B7 in colour, and my mother got a video ten years or so after that. I am happy to accept that the object I believed large numbers of fellow citizens to own may have been Betamax rather than a modern video machine; the point is that I was convinced that they were fairly normal. Maybe it was just that my friends were unusually quick to take up TV technology.