Can't wait to see it, only problem is I don't have foxtel and I don't know how they work? Will it also be broadcast onto free to air tv one day? Or maybe after it has aired on Foxtel do they let people view these shows for free online?
I wouldn't mind to see all of them but I would really like to see the first episode with the Victa story.
I'll be looking out for you CyberJack in that story! Great stuff mate!
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Can't wait to see it, only problem is I don't have foxtel and I don't know how they work? Will it also be broadcast onto free to air tv one day? Hi Converse. I do not have Foxtel either...
Sounds like a good use of their 10 day foxtel now free trial - just wait until after all episodes are released, start trial, watch any bits of interest and cancel subscription
Hi Jack,
It was very tongue in cheek, I know somebody has to pay, and free to air picks up the big advertising dollars and then what you get is a lot of rubbish. I often turn the telly off about 8.00pm as there is nothing worth watching. I have the open fire here and my wife has the Foxtel her end of the house and far be it from me to ruffle her feathers. I guess I will be watching the History channel with her while these shows are on.
I have been advised that my take on Victa did not make the final cut for the History Chanel ... alas!
But ... Northern Pictures has advised the following: -
Dear Jack,
I hope this finds you well. Firstly thank you again for flying in to participate in our shot for the Victa lawn mower last year. It was a lovely scene that you filmed with Anja Taylor discussing some of Victa's most successful advertising campaigns over the years. In the edit we had an abundance of great material for that story, and unfortunately, in the end we had to lose your scene from the final cut, purely for time. It was a shame, but that scene lives on...
We have delivered it to the network along with a number of other great scenes that couldn't make it into the final cut of the series, and the History channel will be publishing your advertising chat with Anja on its website as part of the digital extras for the show so it will be accessible to all, even people without Foxtel. You will be able to see it at the link below in the week leading up to launch on 24th June, and it will live there for a long time after that.
We have also had the publicists for Victa lawn mowers in touch, and they are keen to share that scene as part of their promotion for the show and Victa's innovative history online and on social media. Foxtel's Head of Marketing for factual channels, George Mellick, cc'ed here, has supplied them with the clip along with another cut scene and the series promo.
George, Jack Czislowski is a lawn mower historian. Could you share the Home Life promo with Jack closer to launch and let him know about other materials that might be shareable through his network or on HISTORY's facebook page etc? Thank you.
Jack, here's a link to our latest promo which is running on HISTORY for the next couple of weeks.
Sorry to hear your scene didn't make the final cut CyberJack. As long as it's saved and can be viewed somewhere on the internet it will still be great mate!
I was walking through a shopping centre earlier today and I saw an advertisement for this new show up on the big screen tv there. I think they have some sort of Foxtel channel playing most of the day as I usually see the weather reports sometimes as I walk past this screen and it's not a free to air channel but some sort of pay tv channel.
Cheers!
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Hi NormK, that's ok mate, I reckon it will probably turn up somewhere on the web in a few days.
I hope they add some extra clips and stuff on their website that's free for everyone to see after this episode goes to air.
Cheers!
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Interesting show Converse, too many ads, at least as many as free to air. One interesting thing was the rotary clothes hoist started being manufactured in Geelong for 30 years before the patent expired and Lance Hill did an almost exact copy of it and he got all the recognition
Not sure if the link has been posted in this topic before, but Victa have posted [url=https://www.facebook.com/VictaLawn/videos/634621913724221/]this video[/url] on their facebook (hope the link worked - i cant find another one)
Its Jack's excellent summation of Merv's advertising prowess
Can't seem to get the link to embed https://www.facebook.com/VictaLawn/videos/634621913724221/
Looks a good show, I couldn't get the link to work without copying and pasting the link address .
Here is episode one https://www.facebook.com/FOXTEL/videos/627932817707464/
Download here https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.24130-6/10000000_352677108778376_764745846305949027_n.mp4?_nc_cat=103&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6Im9lcF9oZCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=1a32afe49ef429da4ccbdd56ccac345c&oe=5DBE5DA7
Must admit the Toyne story was really interesting and an actual eye opener. Most men would've totally lost it with everything that happened to Gilbert. Suddenly I've lost so much respect for Hills Industries.
As far as Victa is concerned it could've been far more indepth and it's obvious that plenty was cut out in the final cut.
The Caroma story was the smallest, but in saying that it's really hard to get excited about a toilet flushing system isn't it ?
Cheers, BB.
I live a 24 Hour lifestyle, but every now and again I seem to fall asleep, well at least that's what my wife tells me.
That's Australian documentaries for you. Dumbed down for non intellectual Aussie viewers our tv networks and production houses cater to these days.
I had a feeling I wasn't missing much. The only way we would have got something truly special not to be missed was if an overseas production covered our inventions. It's a sad reality.
Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!
And when you google it Lance Hill gets all the credit for inventing the rotary clothes hoist, Gilbert does not get a mention. Hill just cashed in on it when Gilbert let the patent lapse after the second world war
G'day all It was a great production to be a part of.
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And when you google it Lance Hill gets all the credit for inventing the rotary clothes hoist, Gilbert does not get a mention.
Hey Norm, and this does show that this series did not dumb-it down as such ...
I think there was a genuine desire to get history right - and show more detail. Yes, commercial reality means that so much would remain unsaid in the final cut. But so much more was said!!!
Many thanks to Tyler and Max for the thoughtful words and links.
The rest is history. ----------------------------------- Jack
I've just started watching the link Max provided on Facebook, and got 20 seconds in and started laughing
Audio has engine going, but the throttle is in the off position haha. Although in fairness, we wouldn't be able to hear her talk over the engine haha.
No one else would notice, but I found it funny
The segment was alright, but I concur with CyberJack's comment 'commercial reality means that so much would remain unsaid in the final cut.' They packed in a good amount of content for the 13 odd minutes they had
Thanks for those links Maxwestern and Tyler, great segment there with CyberJack watching the classic Victa tv ads on that old television set!
Hi CyberJack is there any way you can access or can get hold of all the Victa tv commercials mate? It would be great if they were all made available on the internet for people to all see.
Cheers!
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Thanks for that mate, you know I have a few good old Rank Arena analogue tv sets here that are as tough as the old Victa 2 strokes! They just keep on working, the only reason I put them away is because they switched off the good old analogue tv signals some years ago now. I even have a few old VHS players to watch video's on the old sets.
Oh well it was worth a try with the old Victa tv commercials mate. I found a box with some old recorded VHS tapes in hard rubbish about a week ago, I am hoping they have quite a few old shows recorded on them with tv ads possibly from the 80's and 90's. If I find any outdoor equipment ads I think they will be getting uploaded onto youtube...lol
Cheers!
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Ha Converse, I recently found an NEC 6 head VCR complete with remote and chewed tape inside. After performing surgery and careful removal , I found it played other tapes fine and even watched one of the VHS ex rental tapes I found with it on my LCD flatscreen television! I forgot how fun it is seeing previews of other movies beforehand, in this case nearly 20 minutes before the main feature!! LOL!! It was Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde starring Sean Young from 1995. The cover still has the Video Ezy "Weekly" yellow label on it haha for the extra nostalgia factor. It's surprising how forgiving you can be with picture quality (lack of) when you're following the story and the general nostalgia factor that goes with it. It brought be back to video rental shop days. I forgot how great they were.
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Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!
Haha yes those days were great! One of the VHS tapes in this box I found is also an ex-rental from Blockbuster video! Still has the blue and yellow sticker on the tape.
I love the old classic stuff mate. I have kept many older things here as I guess it takes me back to better times that I remember, and also the stuff that we grew up with.
The only reason I grabbed this box in hard rubbish was because I saw them sitting on top of an open box as I drove past. Otherwise I wouldn't have got them. They had been sitting in the rain for most of the day and I took them out of the paper covers and placed them in the shed to dry out for a few days...lol They are great as you don't know what's on them, and if your lucky there could even be recorded tv shows and tv ads from the early 80's on them right through until a few years ago when they switched off the analogue tv signals. Some of the labels on the tapes I have found I remember are from blank tapes that were sold here in the 80's.
Cheers!
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I still have an old Panasonic VHS player here that I bought brand new from JB HI FI I reckon around 1998 sometime. These days it just sits here displaying the time, although it's still connected to this computer with the TV capture card from years ago when I was uploading old VHS stuff onto youtube. It's great as I can just chuck a tape in and watch it on this computer, and capture anything from that tape and put it onto youtube.
Speaking of Betamax tapes, I also did years ago purchase a Sony Betamax player and a box of old tapes from a guy on ebay as I was planning to go through them and upload any old tv ads I found onto youtube. For one reason or another I never got around to doing it and the player and all the tapes have been sitting in the shed for many years now.
Cheers!
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Hi Converse and Tyler,
I'm a bit of an astronomy nut and bought the entire series of BBC's The Planets on VHS. When I went to copy them onto DVD I discovered one of the tapes had been crinkled up inside the cassette case. I carefully opened it up and spliced out the damaged tape and carefully stuck it together with sticky tape on the side that doesn't face the spinning drum inside and successfully copied it onto a blank DVD so I could play it at my leasure without worrying about tapes as it was very valuable to me. I lost about two seconds which are barely noticeable luckily. You have to carefully note where the tape threads between the reels inside before re assembly. I used a junk tape as a guide when I lost track!
Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!
Ha that's a classic mate, takes me back reading that! I think back then you could even buy a tape splicing repair kit from various retailers. I also think I did that to a tape or 2 many years ago that got chewed up on an older VCR...lol.
Cheers!
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