A NEW DOWN YOUR WAY MERSEYSIDE LAUNCHES SOON

A new Merseyside film will be launched ready for the Nocturnal NWVRT  running day week next Saturday 12th November. We are always asked if we have anything else and well scratching around I've found some scenes of Liverpool and Birkenhead taken just after deregulation and onwards courtesy the Bubb family archive. These are hand held amateur shots but cover operators I never saw particularly the ex Ribble vehicles on the Wirral Bus  operation. I've really started to get the hang of the NEAT software which works best as a first layer then other adjustments like stabilisation go on top together with brightness, colour etc. The whole thing is saved and then with a solid HD file any fine tuning won't ruin a nights work. The amount of wobble  and jitter that can be eliminated is surprising and there will be many more opportunities  to make the barley watchable quite alright. It will also include footage of a vintage vehicle run through the Mersey tunnel and the rally at Birkenhead with the old commercial vehicles. All this plus the Rainhill trials from a good vantage point and a couple of retro gems taking us right back in time on Merseyside and hopefully fully colourised from the original B&W image. Its all a voyage of discovery!.

Tomorrow I'm filming at Rotherham and Castleford in Yorkshire. I'm hoping to tackle another down your way presentation on Hampshire and one on Sussex. These all rely on material being available. If you have access to old cine or pre 1990 video we'll try and bring it smack bang up to date and enable sharing with fellow enthusiasts and long term safe storage with the Online Transport Archive. Well nothing for it but yet again some Merseyside scenes.