Never-before-shown: Ch9's colour recording of the 1973 VFL Grand Final. Richmond v Carlton.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ส.ค. 2023
- This footage was provided by Channel 9 management to me, and with their permission has been allowed to be uploaded
It is the never-before-broadcast colour transmission of the 1973 Grand Final, one year before colour TV transmissions were trialled. (From 19 October 1974, Australian Broadcasting Control Board permitted stations four weeks of live color broadcasts for no more than four hours per week and no more than two hours per day).
Colour TV was officially introduced on 1 March 1975.
The director of the time John Crilly confirmed to me that although filmed in colour, the Grand Final highlights were still broadcast in black and white on Grand Final night on Channel 9, as no one had colour television, and the transmission stations up on Mt Dandenong had yet to be upgraded to colour.
The only colour transmission was on the day, into Crilly's director van at the MCG. Ch9 were testing what the colour transmission looked like before the introduction of color TV the next year.
Therefore, this TH-cam upload is the first public transmission of the colour filming of the entire game. - กีฬา
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This is an amazing part of Australian TV & sporting history. Shocked this exists. An absolute treat to be able to view.
I have seen a colour transmission of the 1972 VFA grand final by ATV 0.
Some noticeable differences to today's game.
Only one field Umpire and two boundary Umpires
They used the centre diamond, not the centre square.
No 50-metre lines on the ground.
No interchange.
15-metre penalties, not 50s.
They were still transitioning from the torpedo to the drop punt.
Players would always kick straight down the line.
They would never switch play to the other side of the ground or kick across goal.
The umpire bounced the ball at every stoppage and bad centre bounces were never recalled.
It was rare to see a player congratulate his teammate after he kicked a goal.
Commentators would get confused and sometimes say yards instead of metres.
No countdown clock. No one knew when the quarters were going to end.
No padding on the boundary fence.
Aah, yes - the trainer's ol' wet towel cures everything. Even a concussed Big Nic 😅. Brilliant to see this in colour.
Fantastic work Rhett. I was a mad 12 yo Richmond supporter. Great memories of so many Tiger Champions. Hart, Sheedy, Bartlett, Clay ,Bourke . Also Ian Stewart, not a bad recruit for the Tigers!!! Michael Green what a finals player!!! An era when football was football. Solid Gold commentary and zero B.S. before the game.
This coverage is so much better than channel 7s. The way they cut to ground level when players are in one on one marking contests and just in general you feel closer to the action. What precious footage.
The problem with most tv coverage is the rather narrow shot and the love of close ups. You lose the wider context of the play, the tighter the shots, though TV's love them for the detail. This problem is more pronounced the older the coverage. 60s games are pretty unwatchable for me for the fact of the cameras constantly only showing a 15-meter square portion of the field.😢
@@adhominemsis-t.australisensis Odd comment. The cameras have never been wider angled than ever.
I actually didn't like that. I like to see more what is going on around the ball.
@@adhominemsis-t.australisensis yup.. i agree. So many sports are covered that way. So much of the important play happens off camera.
@joefitzpatrick863 the cameras can be more wide angled than ever, but are they being used that way? And besides, I was referring to 60s production, not today's.
Great upload Rhett. This makes the Balme incident look even worse if that is possible. Congrats on unearthing another great part of history.
According to his autobiography he watched a replay with his kids and they were horrified
My first VFL grand final. Flew over from Perth. 119,956 in attendance. Incredible experience seeing the MCG full.
Not as big as the 1969 GRAND FINAL
I was at the Collingwood v Carlton 1970 GF, over 120k that day🎉
I was a 14 year old then. I can vividly remember the noise of the crowd in the outer during the early parts of the final quarter. It was just about the noisiest crowd I have ever heard that afternoon, especially at that time.
Anyway, fantastic footage.
Thank you!
Wow! The best upload of all time. So many legends!
Seeing my old high school teacher, Carltons full back Geoff Southby, brings back some memories.
I can't believe my eyes! Great game too, Butch Gale and Teddy Whitten commentary is just the icing!
It was a Tiger year with Glenelg in 1973 also winning the Premiership in the SANFL 🖤💛🖤. It happened once again in 2019 :)
Wouldn't it have been funny if in 2019 Adelaide crows made the SANFL GF too and lost. As for 1973 - such an awesome year and final - Graham Cornes and Barry Robran on show (the latter whom I have been involved with and pleasure of meeting, chatting too plenty of times at another "North" footy club a decade ago)
Such nostalgia watching this, not that I knew much about the existence of Earth or anything in '73 but I always remember later in the decade coming to south melbourne every september school holidays from SA and coinciding with Grand Finals that would be on the little B&W TV hammering out while I stood on a fence watching electric red rattlers below me go under the Dorcas st bridge. Brings so many memories, nostalgia and great feelings hearing these commentators, the crowd, the vibe etc and the way the game was played back then. Dare I say in many ways simpler times.
Wow, this is fantastic. Loving the Teddy Whitten and Butch commentary.
FINALLY. BRILLIANT. AMAZING. Thankyou so much for uploading this. THANKYOU.
This is like the Holy Grail for Grand Final enthusiasts.
I've been harrassing GTV-9 about this for almost twenty years, Rhett. Please get in touch about how we can coordinate in further endeavours.
There are still the 9 versions of 72, 71 etc, I think?
Oh, WOW !! Never has this media which has been done in B/W ever before ! Great Uploading of the 1970's Final classic. We thinks that the founder who unearthed this masterpiece probably has screamed himself off to discovering this fantastic gem, as I am only a Sainter fan, thru. Great stuff !!
What a wonderful find! Thanks mate, for this. Listen to those accents! How the country has changed, lol.
Terrific Rhett! Love the shots of the crowd, ground, skills, the commentary, everything. Mum and Dad were married a year later. Crazy. Love the youtube time machine.
Skills, about 3 blokes can kick a drop punt the rest just mongrel it forward.
simply brilliant this will go straight to my aussie collection with Paul Hogan, Mother and Son and kingswood country. Gold
Fantastic. I was 10 years old, so I remember bits of this...especially Big Nick taking that knock. That was a talking point at school on Monday.
I was12 years old, get very emotional watching this, cried my eyes out the year before.
Love the shots of the scoreboard between goals.
This is fantastic footage. Such a different game back then. Neil Balmes hair is glorious, and it looks like Kevin Bartlett only had a narrow window in his life of actually having hair.
Sensational upload. Surprised it took 50 years to be shown in public domain
Great view of the centre diamond too.
Much better camera work than today.
Great footage...channel 9 cameras so much better than 7s. Surprised Tony Charlton wasn't calling the game? It was a different world back then. Nicholls played the whole game with concussion and couldn't get a kick and Southby stays on the field with a broken jaw until half time! And it took the VFL/AFL almost 50 years to work out the detriment that concussion has in a game? Early days of one of the best kicks of a football I've seen, Mervyn Keane. Don't think I ever saw him waste a disposal. Highly underrated.
I believe there is an official VFL Film of this game and I think Tony Charlton was the commentator on that.
Tony went to the ABC for a couple seasons. Cannot recall if he called the 73 grand final for abc. I know he did 1970 for the ABC
Was just a twinkle in me dads eye... back in the day! 😂 still love my footy! Go the Power! Thx mate, great job!
Thanks very much for uploading Rhett. Great to see some of the tiger champions of old.
Sensational Rhett!! Thanks for enabling us Tiger fans of that era to relive this fantastic day in colour again.
Thanks for the upload Rhett you're a marvel just like your dad was, go tiges!!
Fantastic stuff Rhett thanks for getting this out.
Thankyou Rhett and Channel 9, What a wonderful find.
Wonderful - thanks for sharing this piece of Australian sporting history :)
Fantastic, didn't know this existed, so great to see this in colour, thanks Rhett. Went to this game, first GF at 9 years of age in standing room well back at the city end. Stood on a canvas stool so I could see. Crowds amazing back then. Wonder if you have the prelim in colour, what a game that was.
Amazing upload! To see this in colour makes all the difference especially as the quality is so good. The old grainy B&W footage from channel 7 just doesn't do the footy from this era any justice makes it look completely benign where as this shows the real human side of it complete with emotion.
Great to see this game in colour and to listen to Ted Whitten and Butch Gale. Thanks for Downloading this classic.
This is great. I was at this game, it was a really warm day. I was 14 years old. Nice seeing it in colour, I have the dvd but it’s B/W. I’d love a copy of this one.
Wow, what a great catch. Thank you (though not for the outcome).
Top blokes letting you use the footage, cheers to them.
Even as a Bagger, its great to see this in colour.
Hey Rhett,
Im pretty sure I copped KB handball during this gem.
Thanks a lot mate for the upload.
Incredible - what an amazing upload.
In the first 5 minutes, a combined total of about 50 weeks suspension in today's tribunal.
Michael Christian would have laid 628 charges out of this game.
Just brutal.
Great game....I was 30 yrs old & listened to it in Perth.... cheers 😊
oh! and the camera-work is excellent!
The names… endless list of great players..
Back in the days when it was the Centre Diamond, not the centre square.
thanx much for this.... a fantastic game. such a fast (and furious) display of non-stop skills and athleticism. no idea what the game is like these days, but compare this with current football (soccer) and rugby, with stoppage after stoppage, VAR, all that.... a different world. thanx again.
I suddenly got a solid memory of the smells of my grandfather's lounge room in the 70s. Amazing how memory works.
Well done Rhett. I’ve always what happened to 9’s VFL tapes. Interesting to see how it differs from 7’s coverage. Camera use is the first thing that I noticed.
its funny there's a player called Rex Hunt who has the same name as that guy who was on the radio!
They are the same person! He was a great commentator, and used to sing "game over", late in a game when he thought the game was done and dusted! He also played for St. Kilda and Geelong.
Brilliant work Rhett. Amazing how many people souvenired a gameday ball. Imagine trying to do that today!
Fantastic, love watching Laurie Fowler's kinghit on Big Nick in colour!!!
That was considered illegal but not reportable in those days, because he tucked his arm into his chest. Did not raise an elbow. Therefor, not a king hit. Balme on the other hand ... well, what can you say.
I’m actually enjoying this I’m a Collingwood fan but I was born in 1972 so I was 1 year old
The vision switching is amazing for that era and it would appear that 9 were light years ahead of 7
How good is this . Not only get to see the tigers belt Carlton in colour but KB run around the middle. People forget how good this bloke was. When I was a kid he was the best by a mile. It’s said if the norm smith was awarded in his time he would have 4 of em.
How’s these stats
5 flags
403 games
778 goals and 781 behinds
No small forward comes close to that and he was a rover for most of his career. Legend
Best upload in TH-cam’s history. As much as I love the current day tigers the only joy I had as a kid was tuning in the radio and kicking socks around my room.
Errrrrrr handball stats please 🤣
Loved the way KB used to immediately bounce the ball when he was tackled. Would often get Free Kicks that way. Unfortunately that ploy would not work in the modern game thanks to the rule change. Today his illegal disposal stat would outnumber any of his other ones.
Absolutely Smashing Game plan that day :)
Wow, didn't realise Carlton Football Club was carrying handbags even back then.
🤣🍻👍
Great footage. But to all those fans who wax lyrically about what a fantastic he-man's game it was back then, I'm not sure if king hitting a player from behind (49.05) is something to get too nostalgic about.
This is so incredible, the vision is so clear, sound is crisp. Crowd noise is noise, not sure if that is just post production. I wish you could re master the Essendon Carlton clashes when Essendon wishes in 1965 with Coleman as coach
I looked up the weather for that day. The high was 23.8 degrees in Melbourne. Tell all ya friends 🙂🤣
Brilliant upload well done.
Gotta say the drop punt is a better statistical option, most of those torps are wobblers. Nice to see John O'Connell who was my coach in the diamond valley league, and umpire Robinson, a computer science lecturer I had at uni.
Amazing. This is definitely historically significant. They probably didn't think it was on the day. I wonder how many other wonderful nuggets like this are tucked away somewhere.
Stuff like that is the reason why people like Rhett were put on this earth
My old man always used to talk about this game! Was cool to finally watch it and put his stories to picture.
Can’t believe how different the game was back in those days. Every second kick is a wild barrel 😂
How good is this !
Awesome work Rhett!!! 💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤
Thanks Rhett absolutely great find to finally see 73 in glorious colour….. would love to see or know if 9…. Have the First semi from 73 v St.Kilda…(win)…. And the 74 second semi v North Melbourne as these 2 games would complete the 73, 74 winning finals….. well done…💛🖤🐯.
Anyone notice what's missing? No merchandise in the crowd. Everyone's just wearing their casuals from home. 😊
Thank you Rhett!!!
Nicholls was built like a Sherman Tank .
Very cool to see this.. hope theres more matches filmed by Channel 9 in colour.. Be great to see them.
It’s interesting seeing the the crowd dressed in everyday clothes. I wonder when team merchandise started to find its way into crowds.
It’s also interesting seeing how quickly the trophy presentation is done.
By the late 70s and early 80s, supporters were wearing duffle coats with their favourite players' numbers and names sewn on plus pinned on badges you could buy at stalls at the grounds.
The VFL created their Properties Division in 1976. The old shield logos you still sometimes see today are a product of that time. Before that, there was no 'sanctioned' gear.
I loved the old cricket fence and lack of signage. By the time I started going the game in 82 the fence was replaced with advertising signage. ("Join the club. Escort.")
This is magnificent! Many thanks!
Notice the centre diamond….😱… this only lasted a few years !!!!
IIRC, the Centre Diamond was introduced in 1973 and then replaced by the Centre Square in 1975. The main reason for introducing the Centre Diamond was to relieve player congestion at Centre Bounces in order to free up the play. It worked too well because players outside the Diamond were not quick enough to get to the ball after the bounce. Changing to a Square meant that key position players at Centre Half Foward and on the Wings had less distance to run to get to the centre after the bounce. Given the significant increase in athleticism and speed in the modern game it might be appropriate to revert to a Centre Diamond. But the introduction of the 6,6,6 Rule probably mitigates the need for that now.
4:19 Perhaps the moment the game was decided.
Love ya work Balmey lucky it was 1973 and not 2023 otherwise he wouldve missed the first half of the 74 season with suspension
incredible footage. @2:21:32 McKellar is having a smoke on the field! Brilliant!
Great Work Rhett
Neil Balme's hits 49:04 and 52:19.
Total thuggery.
@@jackmacfakie1387 total magnificence
How dirty were the players back then, no wonder many of them have CTE. Good that the game now is more based on talent than biff.
I was too young to remember this but I do recall the asbestos roof of the old Southern Stand and some of the Carlton players from 1979 to 1982, 3 GFs.
The game was noticeably non-stop compared to nowadays. It was play on at all costs but they didn't worry much about retaining possession.
Would have been hard to come out then. Umpire deserves some respect for getting to that level in the game in that era :P
Awesomeness thanks
I like how the commentator (EJ?) mentions the other stations taking the GTV telecast on relay before the opening bounce... you don't really see or hear that anymore
1st match I ever went to, thanks to my friends dad... been a tigers supporter ever since.
Absolutely amazing to see this in colour! So in 73 Ted Whitten, Butch Gale, Wes Lofts.
As another said further down the comments, what else is in the Ch9 archives????
Also, is there any video of Football Inquest....can’t believe there isnt anything in the 7 archive. Im a Hawthorn support but love your work Rhett.
Ps - does anyone remember Mike Williamson doing the Arnotts butternut snaps ad on Football Inquest. Also International Harvester truck ads associated with Football Inquest and The Big Reply.
Geez the skills difference is wild. Even from 70s to 90s. Surprised they could even kick goals.
Yeah agree, massive difference but keep in mind most players had jobs and weren't full time professional players.
Also players didn't rotate like they do today and only 2 on the bench. Another factor is the ground condition not as good as today either.
The most skilful players of that era were still very highly skilled. And they were pretty much all part time players. The VFL wasn't a fully professional league in those days. I think the main difference between then and now is that virtually every player in the modern teams is highly skilled. Although the great players still stand out from the rest, the gap is not as wide as it was back in those days. And the modern game is much more focused on athleticism that it was back then. This feeds into a much faster game requiring much faster decision making and much more structured play. Both forms of the sport have their pros and cons. But at the end of the day, the main focus of the sport is to still get the ball and kick it through the big sticks while preventing the opposition from doing so.
Cracker; we’ll done mate. Amazing to look back at how scrappy it was
Happy Hafey! 👍
Awesome!!
Teddy ♥
And look at Australia now
This was the era when football was football, no beg pardons, just tough footy without all the girlie rules they have brought in now. The footy is so benign now they are all like robots, following the "process" and the "system" and trying to occupy "territory" and going to the "fat side". It's interesting that no one had colour TV so this is a historic bit of footage.........
People think the umpiring is bad now, that 1st passage of play had 5 clear free kicks missed 😂😂
Thanks for uploading!
The result was even better
All I can say is well done Rhett. An amazing find. Such an iconic game - the next question - I have seen film footage of the 73 grand - can that be restored into full HD - where is the original?
Paul, I recall watching what I believe is the official VFL film of the 1973 Grand Final. It was in glorious colour and had a wider aspect than the typical 4:3 television aspect ratio of the time. We viewed it at a junior football club presentation pie night way back in 1974. I cannot be one hundred percent certain but I think the commentary was provided by the late great Tony Charlton. So, I suspect that film probably exists in some VFL / AFL Archive somewhere and could be easily transferred to HD, 4K or even higher quality with the modern technology available. That would be a sight to behold.
Great I have an old record album with the 3KZ commentary, well highlights, of this game ,it's made by W&G, but says custom record,so I'm not sure if it was commercially available, probably not,I'd say.I remember Dad had tickets for the 74 grand final but wouldn't take me as they were standing room tickets, I was nine, and bitterly disappointed, I had to wait till 1980 to go to a grand final with the Tigers in it, but it was worth the wait. Take it easy.
They were sold every year from the late 1960s into the '80s IIRC. The GF Footy Record usually carried ads for them.