Egregoros

Found on a VHS transfer job I'm doing. There is SO much to unpack in this 1987 clip:

First of all, the CHSJ-TV ID is a physical sign with a camera pointed at it - I approve.

Second, that brief signal loss immediately following the ID wasn't an aberration or an issue with the tape recording - that was a normal part of the broadcast. CHSJ-TV was an independent station in Saint John which broadcast CBC programming transmitted to them via microwave from Fredericton or Halifax. They inexplicably didn't bother frame-synchronizing those CBC feeds, so every time they cut from a local program to a CBC program, everybody's TVs and recording VCRs were disturbed because of the lack of genlock. CHSJ ran their own local commercials during CBC's commercial breaks, so this sync loss occurred multiple times during a CBC program.

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@georgia @technolyze

Oh yeah, because my winter muslim clothes were almost all black (no money for embroidery or expensive colors like blue) I got mistaken for this Iraqi Bedouin tribe who are very pale and wear all black and have red hair and blue or green eyes, and it got me curious, and I found out they were a mix of Roman and Nordic descent and acted as mercenaries for the caliphate armies back in the day, to the point that their tribal clothes were the inspiration for elite military unit uniforms in the middle east.