JOY Eurovision

6 Apr 2012

Another time, another place

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Taking a wander through the back passages of YouTube can yield some rather remarkable video.

A search engine and some curiosity are a potent combination.

Ever wondered what the ESC looked like back in the day when telly was in colour, but often still in monochrome ?

Well, here’s a mini documentary on the year RTE & Ireland hosted the event for the first time.

It’s 1971 and the word is gaiety !

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7qL1mcIeTU&feature=related]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGktdPxYbIs&feature=relmfu]

For a television powered event there is remarkably little archival material of this kind.

But what there is adds another layer to the remarkable onion of Eurovision.

Remarkable onion … ?!!

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