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A few samples of work undertaken by Golden Age Television Recreations

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

Lord Attenborough poses with a GA-TV WAll movie camera, an apposite choice to promote BSKYB's Millennium Movies season

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)_

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).

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.

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.

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

Singer Estelle featured two GA-TV EMI 203 cameras in her recent promo 'Go Gone'. This video grab gives a flavour

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

Feature film concerning the 'OZ' magazine obscenity trial at the Old Bailey during the early 1970s. Golden Age Tv supplied 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.

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'. Production Design won an RTS 2008 award for this series of dramas which "convincingly transported the audience back to the behind-the-scenes television world of 40 years ago."

GA-TV supplied several vintage tv cameras including EMI 2001s and Ikegami 79s (live images) to recreate the tv 'look' of 1970s Britain. Michael Sheen plays Brian Clough and Colm Meany, Don Revie. The EMI 2001 pictured used live implants to simulate 'practical' working.

Period monitor stack (fully working) custom built for the Steven Spielberg film 'Munich', September 2005. It includes vintage audio and video mixers in the foreground. Golden Age also supplied many vintage cameras and other items such as microphones, televisions and headsets for this production.

One of the three-part BBC drama series concerning aspects of the '1980s', 'Worried About The Boy' concentrates on the singer Boy George. For this, GATV provided four Ikegami HK323 cameras (two live) and Barco monitors,to recreate an authentic 'Top Of The Pops' music sequence.