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Tens Of Thousands Of Much Music Videotapes To Be Digitized
Much Music use to boast the largest music video resource library in the world. Now thousands of videos and interviews are in the process of being converted to digital formats to preserve the picture and sound quality. 70% of the huge library has been converted from videotape to digital with the work continuing. More details from CP24..
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Recent Canadian documentary movie release Drop The Needle features some great MuchMusic footage.
You can watch the movie free on Amazon Prime:
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paterson1 wrote:
Much Music use to boast the largest music video resource library in the world. Now thousands of videos and interviews are in the process of being converted to digital formats to preserve the picture and sound quality. 70% of the huge library has been converted from videotape to digital with the work continuing. More details from CP24..
I hope they have some of the New Music material as well. NM preceded Much and MTV. It was a pioneering music program featuring hosts JD Roberts, Jeanne Beker, Laurie Brown, Denise Donlon and several more. Just a 1 hour Saturday night show but ground breaking without peer in those days and said to have inspired MTV and MM. I'm confident they'll have tapes because it used to be shown Sunday's at 6am not long ago when CITY-TV was a CHUM company. It ran from 1979 - 2008.
I heard the rumours about this and it's great news. The tapes were supposed to have been destroyed according to Erika Ehm's podcast interviewing ex-MM / MMM VJ's.
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