Celebrating the world's first real time, 24 bit, true color, pressure-sensitive stylus controlled 1981 digital art studio computer!
We have the world's largest archive of Quantel ephemera, art and videos, two working Paintboxes available to use, plus we give talks, demonstrations and curate Paintbox exhibitions.
We are also working on a Paintbox documentary so please get in touch if you have any memories, visual assets or paperwork you would be willing to share with us
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Some great names in there :)
Lots of people to credit, and here are just a few from MPC from back then.. Rob Hodgson, Harry Jarman, Peter Truckel, Richard Dean, Barry O’Riordan, Gerry Anderson, Mark Sherwood, Bernard Lodge, Maggie Alison, John Swinnerton, Mitch Mitchell, Richard Bain, Mark Nelmes, Grant Watkins, Martin Hicks, Bob Gow, Jane Gershfield, Alan Young, Paul Round, David Jeffers, Jonathan Gershfield, Jim Franks, David Rose, Pete Smith, Martin ‘Groucho’ Houseman, Ellen Poon, Will Gompertz, Richard Terpilowski, Charlie Druce, Drew Jones, Moira Houghton, Mark Benson, Matthew Holben, Mac McKenzie, Joelle Newton-Mold, Trevor ?, J-P Edwards, Roland Brown, Phil Graham, Charles Cash, Simon Holden, Clive Christopher, Sharon Bowden, Ian Gough-Williams, Mick Golding, Sue Hall, Helen Hadfield, Jeremy Hall, Chris Gilbert, Dave Hartley, Barbara Jeffery, Hazel Hindler, Brian Stevens, Ian Chisholm, Dimitri Delacovias, Fran Pateman…gosh, many names I have forgotten for sure, but all a great team of people and such a small group. Also all the Quantel engineers without whom the digital magic would not have been possible, and the Advertising Creatives who brought the business to MPC of course!
cant wait to hire them for 1989!
get your check book out... www.mpcvfx.com/en/
Many of the originals still working!!! But not necessarily for Moving Picture Company… alot different now. It used to be that Mike Luckwell and David Jeffers (MDs in the 70s and 80s) would not let the staff list cover more than 2 sheets of typewritten A4 sheet
Honestly this feels super modern, yet also completely trumps most of what's out there today. Awesome work.
Lot of great stuff. Is this available in a high quality interlaced format, perhaps at Archive?
I converted it from a Umatic made at the time
@@1981QuantelPaintbox Could you upload it with interlacing somewhere?
This is a good place for it. Why do you ask?
@@1981QuantelPaintbox I've restored the Muppet Babies video that there's a clip of here, and some of the footage here is better. Stuff like the Bubble Yum and Saturday Night Live is also very good.
@@ocpmovie just looked through your videos and I couldn't see any that you mentioned.
I have to wonder if there was more imagination and daring in video creation back in the 80s.
Ahhh yes 1985, let's all time travel back to the better days. Quirky and different 🤪 in every way. I don't know if it makes me feel 😕 older or younger 🤔 now ? 🙄😅🤣😂 wonderful Wonderful 🏴🇬🇧 may twenty four ✨️
@@paulcrisp9861I would say we experimented more back then.
@@ChristopherSobieniakanything goes back then 😅🤣
..." I'm actually drawing on a blank board, and it leaves no marks behind, it doesn't exist... Hahahah there's nothing there"... - That reaction, sounds brilliant to me. (at point 6:11 onward)
That is a much bigger building than I thought it was going to be. Huge! Thanks for the tour and Happy New Year. 🎉
thanks. Quantel had two of these buildings when they were in full flow
thanks and you too!
Uhh, been many hours in that building in Newbury, on traning, Classic Paintbox, Ramcorder, Harriet, Quantel net, HAL. Still got the traning material books. Great products 👍👍
@@renejensen5656 totally. I have a couple of working Paintboxes in NY if you ever want to drive one again. It would be great to digitize the training manuals if you can, or I would be happy to do it for you
@@1981QuantelPaintbox thanks for the offer, but NY are a bit far away, im in Copenhagen area. 😊😊 Think that it would be a big job to scan all the manuels, as I remember there are 8-10 books with several pages. Im working for the national broadcaster here in Denmark, and we had a lot of graphics and editbox from Quantel during the 90s, and also Cyron Scribe Jr, and Super Scribe. But in the beginning og 00s it all moved to more PC based software, and not so much hardware based equiment. Later Quantel was taken over by Snell & Wilcox, and were rebranded to SAM. So many of the tech staff from Quantel I have seen again, since all our vision mixers since 2004 has been S&W/SAM equiment. And now SAM are GrassValley.
Wow!! Amazing!!
Great video gents