Happy Halloween From The Archives Family

Happy Halloween From The Archives Family

The laptop has been a busy bee today (nothing to do with Arthur Askey, before you... er, ask) uploading two-and-a-quarter hours worth of material to YouTube.

Admittedly, two hours of that was simply the conversion of Episode 26 of 'Round The Archives', but it still involves a fair bit of churning.

We'll not be home for much of this evening, so will avoid most of the local Halloween activity, though we've got a couple of bags of sweets. Just in case of emergencies, you understand?

But we wanted to get something ready for today, so dashed off a quick chat about the first episode of 'The Addams Family' ('The Addams Family Goes To School' : 18th September 1964) which gave me an excuse to experiment with some genuine night filming.

We always notice when archive telly attempts the old filter-over-the-camera-lens trick (hello there 'Raffles'!) so I thought we out to go for the real thing. My looming uplit face is simply achieved by holding an RAC LED torch under my chin, but the effect is probably quite disturbing for those of a nervous disposition.

As we've said, we'll go into more depth with the series in our next podcast, so our video is by no means intended to be definitive, but it's got the odd moment of interest, we think, especially my rather odd early 80s theory of what Thing really looked like.

Also on the spooky YouTube front, I put a link on Twitter to one of Paul (Shy Yeti) Chandler's older videos ('Shy Yeti's SpookyCreepyShow') as it seemed to fit the mood of today. What I'd utterly forgotten is that we make a brief guest appearance it in, which proves how short-term our memories can be sometimes!

Tonight, we're hoping to watch the first episode of 'The Munsters', but that's for another blog post..

A very Happy Halloween to all of you at home from the Archives Family!

The YouTube version of Episode 26 can be found here.

Our scary video about 'The Addams Family' can be seen here.

And Paul's 'Shy Yeti's SpookyCreepy Show' can be seen here.

(Written by Andrew Trowbridge)