To try to keep Wyenot News as interesting and informative as possible, I am considering running the occasional video news item - a kind of on-line television. Online Television is something I have not tried before so first I need to test the system - video format and how to transmit it etc. and for this I would like to ask for your help.

If you have the time, would you please click here to see if you are able to view the short movie clip. This is my first, early video for Windows experiment and I need to know if it works.

If this experiment is successful, with the help of Tina I will film the occasional Ross-on-Wye news item in future.

In order to be able to analyse the results of this experiment, I would be grateful if depending on what you see, you would please click one of the two links below and fire a blank email so that I can determine success or failure. Your email address is safe and will not be passed on or added to any mailing lists. Sorry but due to the amount of email I receive and the amount of time this web site takes up, I probably will not have time to reply to all senders of results individually but your help is nonetheless very much appreciated.

Please click here if the video clip played ok -

Please click here if you were unable to view the clip.

Information about the Film Clip

If you are able to view the clip, you should see a very short and very old bit of film which is an extract from the first moving pictures I have of myself with my family. I am pretty sure it was filmed in Barking Park, Essex, in 1962 when I was nine years old. I was the oldest child, so I am the taller boy (if you are the slightest bit interested). The other people in the clip are my younger brothers, John and Robert and my Mum and Dad. I don't remember who the girl in the film was, though I think it may have been a childhood friend called Linda. The boy with the bow and arrow at the end is my Dad's brother, Reg, who was born with Down's syndrome and lived to the ripe old age (for Down's sufferers) of 58 years. He died in 2004, a year and a half before Mum. There is no sound added, so the only audio you will hear is the sound of the 8 mm projector and me coughing and generally moving around in the background.

I have two hours of cine film from the 1960s but I don't watch it often because seeing the people again and my own childhood naivety upsets me.

Thank you for your help.
Ed.