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Post by Jon Preddle on Jan 23, 2018 20:56:49 GMT
How did these photographs turn up? Based on the fact that this individual has taken photographs on two separate serials, is it plausible to suggest that more exist from other serials? Marco Polo and The Aztecs were repeated together in Sydney between 20 December 1965 and 3 January 1966. I think it's reasonable to assume that this was when the photos were taken. In fact, the photos are from episodes that aired after 25 December -- maybe the photographer got a new camera for Christmas, and was testing out its functionality?
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Post by John W King on Jan 24, 2018 9:13:24 GMT
It is perfectly possible others took telesnaps. I, as an ordinary viewer took a series of photos of the Prisoner opening sequence. Another series of the last episode Fall Out. Later I took photos of several episodes of Thunderbirds. It was fairly easy to do by setting the correct shutter speed. Alas I didn't have the correct camera in the sixties or I would have screen snapped much of Doctor Who. Alas I didn't. So there may well be other independent screen snappers.
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jan 25, 2018 12:08:01 GMT
Same here. As soon as I got hold of decent camera I tried it. It was something that seemed worth doing before videocassette recorders became common. But because I was obsessed with Monty Python, I've got nothing that's missing.
My brother took a couple of snaps of Countdown (the partly missing Australian pop show) which I should follow up.
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Post by RWels on Jan 25, 2018 12:26:21 GMT
Same here. As soon as I got hold of decent camera I tried it. It was something that seemed worth doing before videocassette recorders became common. But because I was obsessed with Monty Python, I've got nothing that's missing. My brother took a couple of snaps of Countdown (the partly missing Australian pop show) which I should follow up. Ah, hindsight! Never thought about it this way; I suppose that it's the visual equivalent of people audio taping TV shows at the time.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Jan 25, 2018 14:59:17 GMT
I tried it myself with a Super 8 film camera in the 1980s. The problem was you had no idea of how succesful the filming was until the processed film came back through the post usually a couple of weeks later. If the image was poor in daylight you could try blacking the room out which usually worked better. Film was rather expensive and not resuable of course so it was not something you could experiment with often - I think I had a few feet left at the end of a cartridge I had used on holiday.
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Post by Chris Wilkinson on Jan 25, 2018 15:52:11 GMT
Does anyone know of anyone who might have taken screen photographs of television shows that are currently lost? It might be worth investigating.
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Post by richardwoods on Jan 25, 2018 16:56:49 GMT
Same here. As soon as I got hold of decent camera I tried it. It was something that seemed worth doing before videocassette recorders became common. But because I was obsessed with Monty Python, I've got nothing that's missing. My brother took a couple of snaps of Countdown (the partly missing Australian pop show) which I should follow up. Ah Sue, I bet you wish you'd snapped The Space Pirates!
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jan 26, 2018 1:16:53 GMT
I would have, I thought those spaceships were beautiful! But I didn't have the right camera or the necessary knowledge of photography until 1974, a couple of years after the last missing episodes were broadcast in Australia. By the way, Polaroid cameras gave good results with TV screens; they usually had automatic exposure, and you'd see the results in a couple of minutes, allowing you to make adjustments and try again.
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Post by brianfretwell on Jan 26, 2018 12:53:26 GMT
I took a few snaps off TV (but not Who) mainly when I had a camera with a leaf shutter not focal plane (which can cause banding) the only Who I took cine of was The Masque of Mandragora to use up my last Kodachrome II before processing was discontinued as K40 was taking over. I also shot a few seconds of Tina Charles on TOTP.
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Post by richardwoods on Jan 26, 2018 17:06:51 GMT
Back in the day, I took a photo off the Colour TV using a Cartridge Film Camera of Abba doing Waterloo on TOTP, but the light levels were too low and to make matters worse only the top half of the picture came out at all. So only half a fuzzy picture I'm afraid. It may exist still in a box somewhere.
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