Comments by "sandgrownun66" (@sandgrownun66) on "1969: What Makes a McLAREN? | Wheelbase | Retro Transport | BBC Archive" video.

To see this in colour from 1969 is amazing.
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Some of this material was shot on colour film, and then transferred to video before broadcast. This was until video took over completely in the late 70's. The PAL system with 625 lines of resolution, could almost produce a video quality similar to that of modern HD at 720p. This clip has been upscaled to 1080p to make it look even better.
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"In January 1994, respected racing car designer Jo Marquart died in his adopted Norfolk recently, following heart trouble. He was 57 years old. In the late 1960s Marquart was noted for his work at McLaren, before he went on to Huron, GRD and Modus. Thereafter, he founded Argo Racing Cars in 1977. The Argo JM6 was one of F3’s pace-setters in 1979/80, in the hands of Roberto Guerrero, David Sears, Thierry Tassin and others, Later, the JM16 and JM19 sports car designs found their niche in IMSA’s Camel Lights class during the 1980s. Martin Schanche and Will Hoy were often the fastest pair in the C2 class of the World Sportscar Championship, setting a string of pole positions and fastest laps with their Zakspeed 1.8 turbo-powered JM19 in 1987. Marquart made several applications to find work with racing teams in the early 1960s, when he was working for the Scottish Bus Group in Edinburgh, and when he drew a blank he returned to Winterthur, in his native Switzerland. Team Lotus took him on in the mid 1960s, however, and he worked alongside the late Maurice Philippe before teaming up with Robin Herd and Gordon Coppuck at McLaren. There, he was credited with the successful Can-Am-winning M8A and the less successful M9A 4wd F1 car. Within a couple of years, however, he had resigned from Colnbrook, in order to do what he preferred, working as a designer for small teams."
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@RabidJohn Its not been colourised. The BBC started Monochrome PAL broadcasts in 1962. You can check out "Jazz 625", which was the first series of programmes to be recorded and transmitted using the new system. The first colour TV programmes were recorded and transmitted firstly on BBC2 in 1967, although it was several years for all BBC and ITV programmes to be shown in colour. Some of the first extant recordings are Wimbledon from summer 1967. I remember the BBC repeating it, when rain stopped play a couple of decades ago. ITV started showing Coronation Street in colour at the end of 1969, and there are some of the first episodes available to watch. Colourising old video is still a time intensive process, and in most cases it's pretty obvious that this has been done. Of course in time, better methods will come along in time. The lack of an ident is due to be it being directly from the BBC archive, and in previous decades an ident was not shown on UK terrestrial broadcasts. I've written all this off the dome, but it's correct.
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Not to forget Jo Marquart, the guy interviewed at the beginning of the report. "In January 1994, respected racing car designer Jo Marquart died in his adopted Norfolk recently, following heart trouble. He was 57 years old." That's no age at all.
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@ So "Jazz 625" from 1962 wasn't broadcast in PAL, pal? The previous system was EMI's 405 line system from just before WWII. Was it transmitted in that? I also didn't need reference to the internet to write this reply.
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@ Wow, you've certainly been hitting the search engines hard, pal. OK, so my memory was a little off. I'd advise anyone to read the relevant articles on Wikipedia, like you did, to clear up any confusion.
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That's assuming any afterlife exists?
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