Gypsy Girl and ads.

We've been attempting to digitize some old tapes via OBS screen recording program, with the main aim of getting some stuff that my aunty had digitized from 8MM film of various family bits and pieces onto disk or file, edited and put up on Youtube.

For a trial run decided to take a run at a tape that contains (Deep Breath,) Halloween H20 and Sky West and Crooked aka Gypsy Girl.  A star vehicle for Hayley Mills and a lot of old actors from TV, not limited to, Lovejoy's Ian McShane as a gypsy kid in love with Hayley. Catweazle aka Geoffrey |Bayldon as the vicar and Annette Crosbie as her mum, better known as Victor Meldrew's long suffering wife Margaret in One Foot In The Grave. Apparently up on Netflix, so give it a watch, it's worth your time.

Its a good film and proves that she could indeed act, she plays a sketchy, spacy mentalist type of girl obsessed with burying every dead animal in the church yard. There's a laugh out loud bit where she finds a dead bumble bee up a tree and presents it to the vicar for a Christian burial.

Ads itself are interesting too. There is a spot for Ebly a wheat alternative to pasta, something called BB Soda which seems to be the year 2000's version of Tab clear, (born 1992, died 1992) and a few spots for Southend on Sea and a your shout on Crown |Green bowling, by two lads from Streatham Hill.

We also have a tape from Channel 4's the human body from 1984 and the tail end of money matters which is cool. This is based on the book, Body Machine by noted heart surgeon Christiaan Barnyard, and seems to be on reproduction from what I've seen.

Will have to redo them though before I put them up. They seem to be using the laptops internal mic to draw sound rather than the TV itself, which is annoying as I can be heard commenting and at intervals, taking the piss. Maybe routing the sound through audacity may help, or more likely poking at the sound settings in OBS which maybe less a Heath Robinson way of doing it.

Edit. Turns out you can mute the internal mic and just have audio from the capture box instead.