Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 1:19:43 GMT
Does anybody why so many of the A/B roll 16mm camera negatives were preserved from the Peter Davison era? One example, of many, being The Five Doctors -
www.impossiblethings.net/restorationteam/TheFiveDoctorsRedux.htm
With the Colin Baker era strangely no A/B roll negatives were preserved. Why this preservation of the original camera negatives ended here is not clear, although it did seem to dwindle prior to this, towards the end of the 5th Doctor run. Before that, preserved A/B roll negatives were a rarity (The Pirate Planet, The Abominable Snowmen episode 2 for example), with Spearhead from Space being preserved by a happy coincidence because it was shot entirely on 16mm film.
Who was responsible for saving the A/B roll negatives from the 82-84 era?
Thank God they were saved. The Restoration Team did an amazing job of making 16mm look as clear as it should with incredible depth of field, improved colour, and absence of film-grain. It also gives us an opportunity to appreciate how skilled a photographer the BBC film cameraman actually was (see the outdoor shots of the Tardis being loaded onto Concorde in Time-Flight, or Jamie and Victoria fleeing from the Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen, for example.) 16mm film, restored from the original camera negative makes any Doctor Who episode involving location work seem even more of a quality production than it already was. Obviously we can only dream of what The Deadly Assassin episode 3 might have looked like, or the climatic battle in Terror of the Autons. But once those original camera negatives are gone, they are gone and that's it! I believe they were either incinerated, or junked in the bin, sadly.
www.impossiblethings.net/restorationteam/TheFiveDoctorsRedux.htm
With the Colin Baker era strangely no A/B roll negatives were preserved. Why this preservation of the original camera negatives ended here is not clear, although it did seem to dwindle prior to this, towards the end of the 5th Doctor run. Before that, preserved A/B roll negatives were a rarity (The Pirate Planet, The Abominable Snowmen episode 2 for example), with Spearhead from Space being preserved by a happy coincidence because it was shot entirely on 16mm film.
Who was responsible for saving the A/B roll negatives from the 82-84 era?
Thank God they were saved. The Restoration Team did an amazing job of making 16mm look as clear as it should with incredible depth of field, improved colour, and absence of film-grain. It also gives us an opportunity to appreciate how skilled a photographer the BBC film cameraman actually was (see the outdoor shots of the Tardis being loaded onto Concorde in Time-Flight, or Jamie and Victoria fleeing from the Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen, for example.) 16mm film, restored from the original camera negative makes any Doctor Who episode involving location work seem even more of a quality production than it already was. Obviously we can only dream of what The Deadly Assassin episode 3 might have looked like, or the climatic battle in Terror of the Autons. But once those original camera negatives are gone, they are gone and that's it! I believe they were either incinerated, or junked in the bin, sadly.
