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READ FIRST This server is NOT a streaming video server, therefore you MUST download the video clips to your hard disk and play them from there. You will need Windows Media Player V9 to watch them. All videos are encoded using the MPEG4 codec so should play on any computer without the need to install anything. The codec will self-install if you don't have it. See my Tips page if you do not have the latest version of player. To get the most out of these video clips I recommend you set your media player to repeat. To do this in Microsoft Media Player V9 just goto the Play drop-down menu and click on Repeat so that a tick appears to the left of it. To pause playback of videos : Its easy to pause/resume playback of these movies. All you need to do is press (and keep pressed) the Alt key and then press P. This will freeze the video on the current frame. Simply repeat this to restart it from the point you left it. This allows you to stop the video and look at the frame in detail. To play full-screen : To view them full screen, Press (and keep pressed) the Alt key then press the Enter key. This will make it play the video full screen, To revert back to normal size just repeat or press Esc to stop. The pausing method described above also works in full screen mode. |
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: Derby Cathedral View 1 Image Reference : DP-120404-BBE-TLV-01 Filming Date : 12th April 2004 File size : 4.07Mb Playback : 18 secs @ 5fps Description : View from Derby Cathedral looking down on Iron gate. The view shows people and taxis traveling up and down Iron gate. |
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: Derby Bus Station View 1 Image Reference : DP-060804-BBE-TLV-02 Filming Date : 6th August 2004 File size : 5.54Mb Playback : 6 secs @ 25fps Description : View of Derby bus station and the Morledge as seen from the top of Cockpit island car park. 13 minutes compressed into 6 seconds. Please note that you must get permission to take photographs from the top of this car park from the Westfield security staff. |
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: Spider Bridge view Image Reference : DP-051103-BBE-TLV-03 Filming Date : 5th November 2003 File size : 2.55Mb Playback : 7 secs @ 25fps Description : View from the Spider Bridge in Allenton on a Winter evening. |
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: Derby to Matlock Bath by car Image Reference : DP-260702-BBE-TLV-04 Filming Date : 26th July 2002 File size : 14.5Mb (takes about 3 mins with a 600Kbps connection) Playback : 1 min 59 secs @ 5fps Description : The journey from Derby City centre to Matlock Bath as viewed from the front of car. Note that I filmed this before cars were banned from driving through the town centre. The journey starts on Reginald Street in Derby and ends at the Railway station car park in Matlock Bath. |
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: Elvaston Castle walk Image Reference : DP-091003-BBE-TLV-08 Filming Date : 9th October 2003 File size : 11.1Mb Playback : 42 secs @ 10fps Description : This is a time-lapse video of a walk starting at the gates on the A6, walking right through them and down the long stretch towards the Golden Gates. Again passing through the gates and onto the Castle. Veering to the right and around the front of the castle and onto the lake to see the Canada Geese. This is a rather odd clip as you are able to travel between the bars of locked gates, At times the journey seems to be flimed on a motorbike as its so fast and jumpy! The filming time was 40 mins. |
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: Trent & Mersey canal - Stenson Lock Image Reference : DP-230704-BBE-TLV-05 Filming Date : 23rd July 2004 File size : 19.9Mb (takes about 4 mins with a 600Kbps connection) Playback : 59 secs @ 10fps Description : View of the Trent and Mersey canal at Stenson. Watch as narrow boats use the lock. This lock takes quite a while to fill and empty. This 1 minute clip equates to 55 minutes of real time. |
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: Narrow boat journey -
Bagnall Lock to Tatenhill Image Reference : DP-120903-BBE-TLV-06 Filming Date : 12th September 2003 File size : 17.8Mb Playback : 1 min 18 secs @ 10fps Description : View from the front of a narrow boat as it goes on a journey through Staffordshire. |
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of the journey from Bagnall Lock to Tatenhill. (You may need to use the pause method described at the top of page to see these points of interest) The journey starts in Bagnall Lock, Alrewas, on the Trent & Mersey Canal, and travels through the village of Alrewas to Alrewas Lock. Once through the lock the River Trent can be seen flowing in from the left and leaving on the right over a weir protected by a large boom. The black and white bridges on the left carry the towpath over the river and surrounding water meadows. At Wychnor Lock the A38 joins the canal on the right hand side. The large brick building, which actually stands against the south bound carriage way of the A38, was once an old coaching inn, the "Flitch of Bacon", the towpath crosses bridge 43 to run on the right of the canal. Glimpses of the large road signs can be seen on this section of canal along with traffic speeding by. The entrance to the large Barton Turns Marina is reached on the left closely followed by Barton Lock with the "Barton Turns" public house on the right. The building to the left below the lock was built about the same time as the canal and was at one time "The Navigation Coffee House". The A38 leaves the
canal just before bridge 36. This very narrow bridge is also where the
towpath briefly rejoins the left hand side of the canal. There is a
large gravel works over the towpath hedge, the area around here |
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: Narrow boat journey -
Upper Peak Forest canal Image Reference : DP-080904-BBE-TLV-09 Filming Date : 8th September 2004 File size : 27.2Mb Playback : 2 min 6 secs Description : View from the front of a narrow boat as it goes on a journey along the Upper Peak Forest canal starting in Cheshire and ending in Derbyshire. Contains 2 Hours of footage. |
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: Garden Slug (in Derby) Image Reference : DP-010803-BBE-TLV-07 Filming Date : 1st August 2003 File size : 4.61Mb Playback : 15 secs @ 10fps Description : Nothing to do with Derby apart from the fact it was filmed in a Derby garden, but included as its very funny to watch. The footage shows how far a garden slug travels in 17 mins. Thankfully slugs don't travel this fast in real life ! Update : April 2007 This footage has been used on the DVD release of the film Flushed Away. To see it, From the main menu select Special Features then select More> then select Super Slug Stuff then click Slugcam. Thats my original high resolution footage. When I filmed this I never imagined that it would end up on a DVD with a major film such as this! |