Portfolio
A few samples of work undertaken by Golden Age Television Recreations
SEEING RED
SEEING RED,an award-winning Granada Tv drama starring Sarah Lancashire, seen here re-creating a scene from 'A Family At War'. The EMI 2001 is complete with correct period lengthy Granada camera script. Attention to detail
Millennium Movies
Lord Attenborough poses with a GA-TV WAll movie camera, an apposite choice to promote BSKYB's Millennium Movies season
MERCEDES
The US President about to leave during the Cuba crisis? Actually, a scene from a Mercedes commercial filmed at Walthamstow Town hall in 1997. The RCA TK 10A is genuine (as is the Merc)_
SHOWBANDS
Kerry Katona receives direction during a recent RTE musical drama production set in the 1960s. The green RTE EMI 203 cameras are the correct period (and colour).
Julie & The Cadillacs
Made in 1996, this 'rock & roll' movie- set in the UK in the 1960s- featured several fully operational Marconi Mk IV cameras and period studio equipment. The picture shows a Marconi Mk IV and a Vinten ob dolly.
LONGITUDE
The 1999 award-winning Granada Television drama 'Longitude' featured a re-created 1940s tv studio (actually at Ealing Film Studios). GA-TV provided Marconi cameras, a Mole mic boom and period tv monitor.
Days That Shook The World
In 1953, BBC Television transmitted the Coronation. The Lion Films/BBCtv documentary/drama series retold the story of that outside broadcast. GA-TV recreated the Abbey control gallery using fully functioning 1950s tv monitors and control gear. Also featured, a Marconi Mk II camera
Estelle
Singer Estelle featured two GA-TV EMI 203 cameras in her recent promo 'Go Gone'. This video grab gives a flavour
MOON LANDING
This is not the 1969 moon landing as filmed by NBC, but a re-creation for a BBC digital channel, promoting a documentary strand. The tv camera is an RCA TK 11A.
TV shop 1966 for 'Sixty Six'
Golden Age TV supplied all the period televisions (working) and radios from 1966 for a TV set shop window for the feature film 'Sixty Six' about the England World Cup Victory.
ARCTIC MONKEYS
The Arctic Monkeys video promo of their first No.1 single 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor', was shot at MTV studio Camden by Dicky Howett using three GA-TV Ikegami 3-tube colour cameras, vintage 1980s. The studio set was designed to look like a period edition of The Old Grey Whistle Test.
MORRISSEY
Morrissey's top selling single and album track 'You Have Killed Me' was filmed by GATV using three Ikegami 79E tube cameras (analogue) recording onto Beta SP. With Dicky Howett filming and Paul Marshall on 'racks', a 1980s video 'look' was successfully recreated in a Rome studio.
'CONTROL'
Marconi Mk VIII cameras and a Mole mic boom on set for a new biopic 'music' movie 'CONTROL'about the 1980s band Joy Division and lead singer Ian Curtis.
SUEZ
A three-part BBC drama documentary charting the Suez crisis of 1956. GA-TV recreated 'Lime Grove Studio P' with James Fox playing Sir Anthony Eden.
THE SKY AT NIGHT 50th YEAR
Shot at Teddington Studios, GA-TV supplied a period correct Marconi Mk III camera and Debrie pedestal plus caption stand, authentically recreating the very first Sky at Night programme from Lime Grove Studios in 1957. The early Patrick Moore was played by Jon Culshaw, (in picture) with Sir Patrick playing 'himself'. The first transmission of this special 50th year broadcast occurred on April 1st 2007.
HIPPIE HIPPIE SHAKE
Feature film concerning the 'OZ' magazine obscenity trial at the Old Bailey during the early 1970s. Golden Age Tv is currently supplying authenic television equipment including a genuine 1968 outside broadcast colour scanner van, a tv newsfilm outfit (pictured) and a complete colour tv studio using veteran EMI 2001 colour cameras.
Most Sincerely
BBC4 Hughie Green bio-drama transmitted first in April 2008 with Trevor Eve in the lead role. Camera in the picture is a 'Double Your Money' 'AR-TV' Marconi Mk III camera, the exact type as used at AR's Wembley studios during the 1950s. Other cameras supplied by GA-TV were EMI 2001s 'Thames' tv (with implant colour cameras and viewfinders.)One review described the production as having 'perfect period detail'.
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