Biggest Little Railway (Channel 4, UK)
Porky_of_the_North
17 Feb 2018 23:17
Hi
A few weeks ago (I've been rather busy lately and almost forgot to mention this) I was watching the Biggest Little Railway on Channel 4 on Sunday 28th January (here in the UK). I noticed they used a lot of stock now-and-then with some narrative on a few historical points. I was just thinking it would be interesting to see some of mine go up on there, as I'd sold a very short clip of the Dduallt Loop on the Ffestiniog Railway, back in late September (filmed a few years ago actually). Then in the documentary they started building a spiral loop... of course I'm thinking that this could be the one. And sure enough, there is (some of) my extremely short (and rather bumpy) clip from a carriage window of the Loop. Quite extraordinary I suppose that I happened to be watching it; there are a lot of documentaries, mostly from the BBC or ITV, on the railways of Wales, so I didn't expect to spot it (especially live on the first day of broadcast). A good hit for me there.
It's quite likely that some of their other stock clips were also from Pond5, although I haven't looked for them. Anyone else spotted their clips in mainstream documentaries recently?
Interesting page about how they made the series:
https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/factual/the-biggest-little-railway-in-the-world-channel-4/5125323.article
DocuWiki has some good technical specs including the broadcast codec:
http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=The_Biggest_Little_Railway_in_the_World
1.5M people watched it according to ThinkBox (a good source if you want to see which documentaries are popular in the UK, if that's what you aim your media at).
https://www.pond5.com/ja/stock-footage/79960576/ffestiniog-railway-dduallt-loop-dduallt-deviation-train.html
Regards
Porky_of_the_North
A few weeks ago (I've been rather busy lately and almost forgot to mention this) I was watching the Biggest Little Railway on Channel 4 on Sunday 28th January (here in the UK). I noticed they used a lot of stock now-and-then with some narrative on a few historical points. I was just thinking it would be interesting to see some of mine go up on there, as I'd sold a very short clip of the Dduallt Loop on the Ffestiniog Railway, back in late September (filmed a few years ago actually). Then in the documentary they started building a spiral loop... of course I'm thinking that this could be the one. And sure enough, there is (some of) my extremely short (and rather bumpy) clip from a carriage window of the Loop. Quite extraordinary I suppose that I happened to be watching it; there are a lot of documentaries, mostly from the BBC or ITV, on the railways of Wales, so I didn't expect to spot it (especially live on the first day of broadcast). A good hit for me there.
It's quite likely that some of their other stock clips were also from Pond5, although I haven't looked for them. Anyone else spotted their clips in mainstream documentaries recently?
Interesting page about how they made the series:
https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/factual/the-biggest-little-railway-in-the-world-channel-4/5125323.article
DocuWiki has some good technical specs including the broadcast codec:
http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=The_Biggest_Little_Railway_in_the_World
1.5M people watched it according to ThinkBox (a good source if you want to see which documentaries are popular in the UK, if that's what you aim your media at).
https://www.pond5.com/ja/stock-footage/79960576/ffestiniog-railway-dduallt-loop-dduallt-deviation-train.html
Regards
Porky_of_the_North