Peter Lamb in looking for information on Dr J.A.Purves (see this item in Histelec No.26) was given a great deal of information by John Perkin including some video items by Pathe. These were filmed in 1932 at Weston-super-Mare (Brean Sands) and at Brooklands. I am sure these would be of interest to many of our members and visitors. Videos on websites do however present difficulties unless specialised more expensive video servers are employed.

As a trial here is a different way of presenting videos and photos on the site. You may have to download a free flash player and you should also have Windows Media Player 8 or later on your computer.

Clicking on the play symbol on the player that has appeared provides an automatic run through all the clips for those with broadband. If you do not have broadband the please click on "options" button and untick the auto play feature. You can then highlight any individual clip in the left hand table and just play that clip. When the mouse is over the clip a yellow text box appears with information - the figure in brackets at the beginning of the text give the size of the clip in kbytes - you can use this to decide how long the clip will take to appear.

The video clips are provided with sound which can be adjusted with the second slider at the bottom of the player. Do listen to the Lady's (Purves wife?) instructions and you will finding driving the Dynasphere a cinch!



As an amateur web master I am totally beholden for this form of player to the Media College dot Com. Details of this available at www.mediacollege.com/flash/media-player. Please let me know if you find this type of presentation useful.