Damien Scully · @DazzlingDamo
327 followers · 3331 posts · Server mastodon.ie

This is worth a watch, it had a everything I could ask for... Scenery, cows, prices I didn't understand and a Triumph Spitfire.
Fair to say a lot has changed on the roads of since this was made.
Watch "1969: DRIVING HOLIDAY in County KERRY | Holiday 69 | Retro Transport | BBC Archive" on YouTube
youtu.be/iU-MF3sljd8

#ireland #classiccars #weirdcarmastodonwe #bbcarchive #holiday

Last updated 1 year ago

Damien Scully · @DazzlingDamo
298 followers · 2658 posts · Server mastodon.ie

I know @davidwilkins has just finished with Citroën but here is a DS Safari working hard for a living as a camera car.
bird.makeup/users/bbcarchive/s
bbcarchive@bird.makeup - 1976: Blue Peter's John Noakes bravely climbed aboard the roof of a Citroën DS Safari to demonstrate the BBC’s mobile camera technology.

#onthisday #WeirdCarMastodon #oldtimercars #oldtimersofmastodon #classiccarsofmastodon #classiccars #bbcarchive #bbc

Last updated 1 year ago

Damien Scully · @DazzlingDamo
297 followers · 2645 posts · Server mastodon.ie
diyelectromusic · @diyelectromusic
756 followers · 303 posts · Server mastodon.social

Wow - BBC archive of programmes related to electronic music.

bbc.co.uk/archive/electronic-m

#electronicmusic #history #bbcarchive

Last updated 2 years ago

Em-squared · @emsquared
282 followers · 2666 posts · Server mastodon.social

This is wonderfully daft. I admit I laughed out loud. What happened to our affinity for eccentrics?

youtu.be/n1eIokd38do

#bbcarchive #ferrets #daft #eccentric

Last updated 2 years ago

sue_twin2 · @sue_twin2
59 followers · 310 posts · Server mastodon.world

Quintessentially quaint - Quicksilver and Quince

A video from 50 years ago - enjoy! 😊

youtu.be/zEp-bigGqYI

#cats #bbcarchive

Last updated 2 years ago

sue_twin2 · @sue_twin2
50 followers · 267 posts · Server mastodon.world

"1951: The POST Arrived on Time | BBC Newsreel | World of Work | BBC Archive

This film follows the postmen and women tasked with delivering Christmas mail to some of the most remote parts of the country.

Whether on foot, by boat, post van, or even on horseback, these determined folk ensure the Christmas post arrives on time.

Originally broadcast 26 December, 1951"

youtu.be/L1KLP202msI

#post #bbcnewsreel #bbcarchive #christmasmail #worldofwork #history

Last updated 2 years ago

Em-squared · @emsquared
162 followers · 1251 posts · Server mastodon.social

Was online circa 1994. Remember trying to watch streams of Bowie recording his 1.Outside album but frustrated by animal,mineral,vegetable compression,poor frame rates & buffering. I thought the Internet would bring the world together. Yeah I know. What a dreamer. Still you gotta have hope. Or is it hoops? I always get those mixed up. #1995
youtu.be/L59xEQsy2r4

#bbcarchive #history #internet #uk

Last updated 2 years ago

Lloyd Davis · @lloyddavis
147 followers · 329 posts · Server octodon.social

“Meet the Commuters” Nationwide, 1976 from BBC Archive.

youtu.be/A6WPnx_DWQQ



#retrotransport #bbcarchive #1970s

Last updated 2 years ago

Graham Jeffery · @grahamjeffery
86 followers · 206 posts · Server mastodon.social

@Richard_Littler @scarfolk - this is straight out of - including the slighty chipper / sinister voice over from and great bleached out 16mm film aesthetic, alongside casual sexism, dodgy motors and abundant cigarettes

youtube.com/watch?v=RHo3d_4d2S

"Don't make it easy to get past the receptionist" "Double check on anybody who does anything out of the ordinary"

#scarfolk #JamesBurke #hacking1972style #bbcarchive #infosec #hustling

Last updated 2 years ago

Cultura · @culturalgutter
63 followers · 58 posts · Server mastodon.online
Andi Chandler · @andibing
127 followers · 54 posts · Server mastodon.social

New technology from the 1970s. Tomorrow's World demonstrates a new idea to be able to call a number from a mobile device.

I wonder, will it catch on?

#TomorrowsWorld #mobile #tech #future #bbcarchive #bbc #phones #radio #technology

Last updated 2 years ago

jprbarry · @jprbarry
47 followers · 851 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

1994: Are YOU Ready for the INTERNET? | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
youtube.com/watch?v=XpZ5STahhP

#internet #theinternet #retrotech #bbc #bbcarchive

Last updated 2 years ago

Soh Kam Yung · @sohkamyung
579 followers · 11525 posts · Server mstdn.io

🙂

"BBC Archive @BBCArchive

Wiki who?! 1974 Mortimer J. Adler claimed the new 15th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica will be around for the next 50 years. To be fair, the last printed edition in 2010 was still based on the 1974 release. Interview by Christopher Rainbow."

twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/

#onthisday #bbcarchive #britannica #bbc #history #Encyclopaedias

Last updated 3 years ago

Soh Kam Yung · @sohkamyung
556 followers · 11288 posts · Server mstdn.io

A fascinating video by BBC Archive from 1966 showing Professor Gerald Hawkins explain how Stonehenge could have been used as an astronomy calculator.

twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/

#bbcarchive #astronomy #archeology #stonehenge

Last updated 5 years ago