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Жыл бұрын

In Vision takes a look at the mammoth operation involved in getting Saturday night sports staple Match of the Day to air.
This edition of Match of the Day features West Ham United versus Liverpool FC, so the outside broadcast crew comprising camera operators, broadcast technicians, commentator Barry Davies and director Alec Weeks are at Upton Park. With just a few days to go until the FA Cup Final, this league game is a good opportunity for the crew to get match fit ahead of the the biggest television football match of the year.
Back at BBC Television Centre, the Match of the Day production team are busy preparing to edit the match into a highlights package, using the latest video disc technology to provide the smoothest slow-motion replays imaginable. In the Match of the Day studio, Head of Sports Sam Leech and studio director Martin Hopkins are thrashing out the running order of the show, while presenter Jimmy Hill is in makeup having his signature goatee beard trimmed.
Originally broadcast 2 May, 1974.
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@jasonayres Жыл бұрын

Barry Davies, back in the day, was an easily distinguishable voice, all over the world. And that theme tune, too!

@jcampton1 Жыл бұрын

I know the BBC Archives provide a lot of fantastic content but as a telly geek, I'd love to see more behind the scenes content if you can. I know Swap Shop stripped back the world of television by moving outside of the studio so stuff like that is fascinating to watch. To the team, Keep up the good work preserving our history.

@TV-FilmCameramanUK Жыл бұрын

I know know a couple of the old Swap Shop camera people. They said mostly they didn't like doing it because of the start of the shift hours involved. They are either the blame or the credit for my career choice. 😂😂👁

@welshlad6427 Жыл бұрын

My favourite ever football commentator is Barry Davies. Great days and great memories. Loved the 70s and 80s watching MOD ❤️

@imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580 Жыл бұрын

This was the day that Manchester United were relegated, ITV covered that game, Gerald Sinstat saying the immortal words "Denis has done it"

@roaarylion5214 Жыл бұрын

That’s unrealistic 😊

@imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580 Жыл бұрын

@@roaarylion5214 it happened, United needed to win against City and hope that other results went their way, 5 minutes from the end City scored and United were down....Ask your grandad if you don't believe it.😉

@davidhamm7909 Жыл бұрын

I remember it well. To his credit, Denis Law was completely professional about it, scored the goal and didn’t celebrate.

@MrEchoes1962 Жыл бұрын

@@davidhamm7909 Denis Law was completely professional about it, scored the goal and he should have celebrated big time 😀

@asd36f Жыл бұрын

If you tell someone today that Manchester United were relegated to the 2nd Division and Carlisle were promoted to the 1st Division they would have you sectioned LOL

@enoz.j3506 Жыл бұрын

Stagering amount of organisation & technical procedures required to make any TV show,amazing and truly fascinating, Thank you.

@phrtao Жыл бұрын

I was never a football fan but this brought back many happy memories of my dad watching 'Match of the Day'.

@retunerman Жыл бұрын

27th April 1974. Dr Who, Monster of Peladon Part 6 on the tx monitor during the editing session.

@fluffymacaw933 Жыл бұрын

Oh I saw it, the third doctor

@That_Random_Bloke 3 ай бұрын

Good knowledge!

@edwardburek1717 Жыл бұрын

This is absolutely fantastic. A thoroughly fascinating insight into how MOTD was done in the 70's. It's interesting to see Barry Davies using a headset during the commentary, while contemporaries would use a lip-mic, even to this very day. It just goes to show that you can use a headset during outside broadcasts without the need to enclose the commentary position. Whoever was doing the editing back in Television Centre must have had the best and most difficult job in broadcasting, trying to distill 90+ minutes of football into 25 minutes, and to be done in the space of five hours. Hope they were getting double time. I am guessing that this was during the end of Jimmy Hill's first of many seasons at the MOTD helm, after he transferred from London Weekend. What a legendary broadcaster, and pipe-smoker extraordinaire.

@thedave7760 Жыл бұрын

If only they knew what I can do now with my laptop. That 2 inch machine took about 4-5 seconds to lock on signal. LOL All the equipment so quaint and fragile, "you to loose a camera, cameras break down" like you can rely on the fact that cameras will break.

@KingKenny. Жыл бұрын

They say we live in enlightened time ! But watching clips like this , makes me wish those times were still here !

@richard7crowley 8 ай бұрын

This really gives us an appreciation for how fiddly everything was "back in the day". Here in the 2020s, all the switching, effects, monitoring, instant replay, recording, editing, etc. is easily done with hardware (personal computers and digital video hardware like Blackmagic Design) and software available to the general public. And with cameras less than the size of a shoe-box vs. those old cameras the size of a dog kennel with a monster 44x zoom lens hanging off the front. These days they have 88x zoom lenses for sports coverage and they mount the lens to the pan/tilt head and hang the tiny camera on the back end of the lens. 🙂

@shaunfield7714 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely wonderful. This was my world in the early to mid 70's. Surprisingly, I can't remember Mervyn Day's penalty save but I do remember West Ham scored two brilliant goals, through Lampard and Brooking that day. Haven't seen Sam Leach since he used to present the Saturday lunchtime football preview on Grandstand back in 73 or 74. Thank you very much for this but I wish the Beeb would release it's MOTD archive in the way that ITV's The Big Match has been released

@digeme69 Жыл бұрын

It wouldn't surprise me if they don't have much footage of the old MOTD (70s, 80s). I know for a fact that a lot of the beebs archive footage of sport has been erased. It certainly has with snooker championships, only keeping finals and 147s etc. ITV actually list all the archive sporting footage they have and will sell footage at £150 for 90 minutes footage but with a watermark right across the screen (so it's expensive and the watermark ruins it). The beeb won't help at all like this. I was even willing to pay up to £500 many years back for a particular snooker match but my request fell on deaf ears!

@NoelPetty Жыл бұрын

Yes definitely although I fear they have junked a lot of the colour full TV episodes - an updated and extended Match of the Seventies would be welcome at least

@johntomlinson6849 Жыл бұрын

This is wonderful. Very happy memories of Saturday nights with me enthralled by Doctor Who, all of us enjoying the Generation Game and Two Ronnies before mum had "a soak in a hot bath" while dad enjoyed MOTD. I've learned a little about television production techniques as they were at that time and how difficult it was to edit Ampex 2-inch quad tape, so seeing how these utter professionals cut down 90 minutes of footage to 25 within such a time frame is a real pleasure. Great days. Intereresting also how much work the backroom staff put into the final production, yet Hill got all the plaudits and probably got the highest salary of them all. Plus ça change. The crisp pusher proves that.

@NoelPetty Жыл бұрын

Absolutely fascinating

@latibes Жыл бұрын

Absolutely fascinating stuff!!

@guilhermecarvalhodarosa Жыл бұрын

really awesome, thanks

@johnnyworzel3741 Жыл бұрын

I was fascinated by this, so much has changed!

@potatoface4698 Жыл бұрын

Magnificent 🎬

@dgreensuperhoops Жыл бұрын

Ther late, great Jimmy Hill. True professional

@Me-ll4ig Жыл бұрын

Brilliant video. The guys doing the editing after the match that must have been cumbersome, to go through the whole match again to find the best bits !!!

@Jumpmaster337 Жыл бұрын

Love it!

@fidelcatsro6948 Жыл бұрын

my cat loves u too 🐱♥️♥️♥️

@jdm65 Жыл бұрын

This is marvellous, though mid-70s fashion was really quite something.

@rareblues78daddy Жыл бұрын

...buddy, the mid-70s themselves were really quite something. What was in the water back then, anyway?

@robbflynn4325 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@79narz Жыл бұрын

Years before i was born and im old, but the technology is so advanced!

@anthonyleighton4754 Жыл бұрын

Jumpers for goalposts ....mmmmmm marvellous isn't it.....great bit of history Ron manager would have loved this ...

@JakePurches-Base2music 2 ай бұрын

The OB is a heck of a set up. Amazing.

@lonniebishop9062 Жыл бұрын

When it came to covering English football coverage in the '70s, BBC Television did it best as this classic video proves.

@damnft8218 Жыл бұрын

Lol that’s like saying Real Madrid did it best in the 70s and history proves it! Yeah but for a number of critical prerequisites 😂😂

@original.dwornboy Жыл бұрын

I preferred ITVs coverage in the 70s with Brian Moore, Kenneth Wolthiinstow and the likes of Brian Clough and Jack Charlton as pundits.

@Spectrescup Ай бұрын

@@damnft8218Real Madrid weren't even in the conversation in the 70's

@dlamiss Жыл бұрын

Remember this day so well, was 9 years of age and the only time in my "football career" i scored a hat trick

@welshlad6427 Жыл бұрын

Your 2nd was offside tho.

@dlamiss Жыл бұрын

@@welshlad6427 Nah VAR allowed it

@jonnyhaw 2 ай бұрын

Interesting to hear discussion of the behaviour of the crowds, and talk of "fencing them in"........

@syteanric Жыл бұрын

5:10 - that's a top drawer save!

@danabrahams7892 Ай бұрын

my beautiful late father was the longest serving producer/director of MoTD

@noyoureafuckintube Жыл бұрын

10:45 - style personified. 😍

@djdrwatson Жыл бұрын

4:57 What an incredible save by Mervyn Day with his bare hands, no gloves! 2:53 5:09 Clyde Best (11) was one of the first black footballers to play in the English First Division. Search his name here on KZfaq to hear Harry Redknapp's story about Clyde Best's time at West Ham and the experiences he had to go through. 9:37 We later saw in the 1980s what happens when standing fans are fenced in with nowhere to go if a problem arises.

@pressureworks Жыл бұрын

Fantastic save !!!! Yes, thought exactly the same about the fencing

@BulletProofKiD Жыл бұрын

Wat a save bare handed wow

@johnnyballenatl 10 ай бұрын

If today’s modern equipment were around in 1974, three different angles would’ve covered that save (including the goal cam).

@adeh503 Жыл бұрын

State of the pitch , love the seventies

@NoosaHeads Жыл бұрын

I had no idea that a football match involved such complexity.

@eddiebrennan126 Жыл бұрын

I did 😅

@eddiebrennan126 Жыл бұрын

I know everything

@swanvictor887 Жыл бұрын

Every OB is technically complex. Broadcasting is hard work requiring highly-skilled professionals trained in cutting-edge technology. That's why the crews are well paid.

@YHBW1001 5 ай бұрын

@@swanvictor887 They used to be!!!

@swanvictor887 5 ай бұрын

true...the glory days of the 1980s are long gone sadly...lol......@@YHBW1001

@homevideotransfer-vhstodvd9744 8 ай бұрын

At timecode 3.18 is Pete Dunkley on VT and time 5.40 John Sedgwick at 6.58 is the Hexiplexer desk in the basement under the TVC fountain and is now a Gym, at timecode 11.23 top left monitor shows The Black and White Minstrel Show!

@alijanlondon Жыл бұрын

Martin Hopkins. The nastiest man in TV production. Continually swearing and shouting at the presentation department over talkback

@robertpollock1986 6 ай бұрын

Always preferred Barry Davies to John motson

@thebat7048 Жыл бұрын

Changed days eh..

@monteceitomoocher Жыл бұрын

Somewhat prescient right now, this is the world i remember, normal people doing normal stuff, smoking' tut tut!, no agenda or guarded language, and proper sports journalists, there for no other reason but their professionalism, wonderful stuff.

@KevinM913 Жыл бұрын

Happier days!

@richardsharpe2966 7 ай бұрын

A time when Match Of The Day was done properly and professionally with dear old Jim the Chin

@oxouk Жыл бұрын

Long before goalies wore ridiculously giant gloves.

@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 Жыл бұрын

Did you see the EMI-2001 Camera 00:01 in this video... They were the "Bread and butter" camera used by the BBC from the late 1960s and they did not fully retire them until 1991.

@seamusellis1450 Жыл бұрын

Introduced in 1967 along with Colour..initially the BBC went with Marconi MKVIIs but soon realised the 2001 was more suited -The MkVIIs were relegated to news, continuity and situations where they remained static. Eastenders was their last stronghold I believe ? The OB units also used a Phillips camera I believe ?

@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 11 ай бұрын

@@seamusellis1450 Indeed Eastenders was their last stronghold.

@DigitalDiabloUK Жыл бұрын

I would love to understand more how the vision was relayed from the stadium.

@yellowbelly06 Жыл бұрын

It would have been sent via a microwave link. At 0:35 as the crane lifts one of the cameras above the stadium you see a shot of the OB vehicles - the one on the left shows a lattice-frame stand; at the top of this would have been a dish literally aimed at TVC. Microwave links required a clear line of sight to work, something largely impossible in modern London with its’ skyscrapers. Microwave links were phased out by satellite links which removed the need for a fully clear line of sight.

@Mark12367 Жыл бұрын

That sense of impending doom hearing that woman count down

@Zlervo Жыл бұрын

The old West Ham football ground.

@Selous_Scout 3 ай бұрын

12 minutes 40 seconds…I didn’t know lofty was multi talented?? A actor by day and a tv producer by night lol

@sh-ig9fm Жыл бұрын

6:57 on the right monitor looks like a episode of the 3rd Dr who.

@AlanTaylormusic Жыл бұрын

Back in the day when the BBC were great.

@oldschoollondoner4674 Жыл бұрын

That chap with the moustache at 07.26 looks suspiciously like Kate Bush's brother John Carder Bush, otherwise known as Paddy Bush.

@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 Жыл бұрын

Almost 50 Years on... 03:44 in this video ...MOST of these people will be gone now. Life is short... Enjoy every day you are on this planet.

@cerneuffington2656 Жыл бұрын

The other match covered that day was Everton v Southampton.

@original.dwornboy Жыл бұрын

Sounds like dulll encounter. 😑

@cerneuffington2656 Жыл бұрын

@@original.dwornboy Not exactly. Although Southampton won 3-0, they were relegated after Birmingham beat Norwich. Highlights of that game were shown on ITV the following day. I was only 4 years old at the time, so remember it well 😂

@knownpleasures Жыл бұрын

Fascinating stuff, technology unsurprisingly looks a bit ropey. That game at Upton Park must have been Bill Shankly’s last league game for Liverpool

@user-pc9du2hv4k 6 ай бұрын

Yes it was, nobody knew it at the time.

@Mark12367 Жыл бұрын

That slow motion moves faster than my nan, and she’s been dead a while…

@videonut1988 Жыл бұрын

Really different than the current productions of #MoTD...

@michael7286 Жыл бұрын

Great save by Mervin Day the brilliant West Ham goalkeeper, but in a different match between Sheffield United and West Ham United covered by Match of the Day at Bramall Lane back in the 70s the Sheffield United midfield magician Tony Currie twisted and turned the West Ham defence inside out and with a swerve of the body sent West Ham goalkeeper Mervin Day in the wrong direction before passing the ball into the goal. What a Quality Goal By A Quality Player. Sheff Utd 3 West Ham Utd 2

@Spectrescup Ай бұрын

Look at his face etc

@MattFreestonePictures Жыл бұрын

Anyone know what studio at Television Centre this was?

@joshclarkethemudlark8048 Жыл бұрын

What’s Noel Edmonds doing in Goal @4:18

@Darwinion Жыл бұрын

Leeds won 1-0 at QPR that day and paraded the League Championship trophy (which they'd already won) round Loftus Road in front of their record crowd. They literally only came to see Leeds. That wasn't on MotD either. Think ITV had that with Brian Moore on The Big Match.

@QuizWriterMark Жыл бұрын

COYI ⚒️

@ajs41 Жыл бұрын

When keepers couldn't afford gloves.

@steveluckhurst2350 Жыл бұрын

And not a daft replica shirt in sight!

@redareda4470 Жыл бұрын

Come on hammers ⚒️

@elchinkazum5726 10 ай бұрын

may I share on my page?

@danikahn5378 Жыл бұрын

0:05 smoking at work

@johnnyvasiliou 5 ай бұрын

0.27 was Jimmy savile a mobile crane operator?

@howardgilpin8818 Жыл бұрын

Didn't Sam Leech die reasonably young?

@dlamiss Жыл бұрын

jumped ship to ITV in the late 70s

@howardgilpin8818 Жыл бұрын

@@dogbreaththe3rd851 Yes I was taking spelling from text accompanying the video. Just checked on Wikipedia and he died in his early 50's from a heart attack. I remember him presenting Football Preview slot on Grandstand.

@joannefitzpatrick6720 Жыл бұрын

@@dogbreaththe3rd851 During "Football Preview" on 23rd October 1971, he famously dismissed Partick Thistle as having "No Chance" against Celtic in the 1971 Scottish League Cup Final: approximately 2 1/2 hours later, they were winning 4-0.....

@anthonyleighton4754 Жыл бұрын

Just one woman there ....and she was a typist.....things have moved on quite a bit ...

@PjD-pk1fg Жыл бұрын

MOTD when it was about the football and not the overpaid,self important,self indulgent,little boys club pundits.

@original.dwornboy Жыл бұрын

The Black & White Minstrel Show then MOTD.... BBC Saturday night at its worst.

@cerneuffington2656 Жыл бұрын

And Jimmy Savile's Clunk-Click, after Doctor Who... a great line-up 🙂

@rareblues78daddy Жыл бұрын

@@cerneuffington2656 You could always just watch The Old Grey Whistle Test.

@valuetraveler2026 Жыл бұрын

back when soccer mattered

@kmurphy994 Жыл бұрын

Soccer….really?

@original.dwornboy Жыл бұрын

Yes, soccer was a widely used term in England during the 1950s to the 1980s.

@kmurphy994 Жыл бұрын

@@original.dwornboy bullshit..not by real football fans…where did you get that information? Widely used where?

@steveluckhurst2350 Жыл бұрын

@@dogbreaththe3rd851 whoosh!

@aronroyle1523 Жыл бұрын

@@original.dwornboy Football or Soccer, all the same thing. Don't know why people get such a bee in their bonnet about using the word soccer. As kids in the 80's we'd use both names.