Cave 84, 85, 86

[colinboothroyd]

Way back in the eighties Chris Baxter and I produced some spoof 'news programme' videos for the BCRA conferences. They were digitalised and edited down for a new airing at the recent Hidden Earth.

They have now been uploaded as a 40 minute video on to YouTube.

They are a window into the caving scene of 40 years ago. They are satirical, painful, personal and controversial. And very much 'of their time'.

The link to the video is:

 

[hannahb]

How were these received at the recent Hidden Earth?

 

[Custards]

Thanks for putting them on YouTube! I thought they were absolutely brilliant seeing them last weekend, can't wait to pass them on to my friends. They've gotten me thinking about making some caving films myself now...

 

[colinboothroyd]

How were these received at the recent Hidden Earth?

I think they were very well received. But I am probably the last person to ask. Maybe comments from those who were there would be more illuminating.

 

[colinboothroyd]

Thanks for putting them on YouTube! I thought they were absolutely brilliant seeing them last weekend, can't wait to pass them on to my friends. They've gotten me thinking about making some caving films myself now...

Glad you liked them. And go for it, make your own!

 

[JAA]

Rupert with hair!

 

[The oil king]

Thanks for putting them on YouTube! I thought they were absolutely brilliant seeing them last weekend, can't wait to pass them on to my friends. They've gotten me thinking about making some caving films myself now...

Pass them on quicker

 

[JJ]

Wonderful stuff - great to see these again after so many years. Brought back some great memories, always the highlight of the mid 80's UMIST conferences

 

[Tritim230]

Really enjoyed this, Colin. It helped being around in the Dales at that time and knowing the characters parodied!

 

[mikem]

To put it in context - Caving 1984:

1985:

1986: https://www.moorebooks.co.uk/-used-vertical-caving-first-edition.html

 

[langcliffe]

I'd forgotten that you had been young once, Colin!

 

[colinboothroyd]

I'd forgotten that you had been young once, Colin!

Maybe once, during the 80's. But the videoing aged me. I have been very old ever since.

 

[rsch]

I think they were very well received. But I am probably the last person to ask. Maybe comments from those who were there would be more illuminating.

Really enjoyed them, for the incidental historic technical detail included as much as the targeted mentions of various bullshitters and airline-promoting godheads.

Thanks for doing the work to make them available to the modern world.

 

[Loki]

Can we have a Cave 25 next year, there must be enough contentious threads on this forum alone?!

 

[georgenorth]

I think you need to make this happen Loki - you seem to have a penchant for satire 😉

 

[2xw]

Definitely needs a Caving 25 as an anniversary edition. Potentially revisiting some of the original characters