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The next FDCA lunchtime film show, courtesy of FDCA and the NLS, will be a transport back to 1980.Mobile phones were bricks for the well-to-do with extendable aerials and briefcase size batteries,, and email was in its infancy, Rishi Sunak was born, Jerome Lemelson received his first patent for a camcorder, a gallon of petrol was £1.32, and box office hits included The Empire Strikes Back, Airplane!, Private Benjamin and The Blues Brothers...
The 30-minute film will be the 1980 award-winning amateur film on Super 8 format about the opening of the Radio Tay Studio in North Isla Street. entitled "Birth of a New Sound" . Filmed by Colin Johnston , it won the Louden Salver in 1981.
Starting with an interview with Danny Burke, who became a director of Tay Sound Broadcasting, , the film covers studios being constructed as well as the transmitter south of the Tay Bridge; street scenes in Dundee; interview with George McIntosh, head of programmes.; studio interior,, decorated with tartan wallpaper; testing transmitters in Dundee and Perth; rehearsals including Valerie Dunbar; Gerry Quinn going on air for the first time playing the first tune "The Road to Dundee".
Tickets are free but booking is essential via Eventbrite
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Wellgate Centre, DD1 1DB Dundee, United Kingdom, NCP, St Andrew's Street, Dundee, DD1 2, United Kingdom,Dundee
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