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Post by brianfretwell on Apr 12, 2022 8:14:25 GMT
Example 1: Trumptonshire trilogy... the first so-called "restored" DVD set was restored from 2" tape dubs made in the 70s... by the BBC, even though the BBC itself always TX'd it from film. I do believe they did the same with the Paddington and Mr. Men films, maybe with a view to keeping them as safety copies if the films fell apart. Which they almost were by the ends of their respective runs. That doesn't make sense though. The films would have been shot on colour negative. The neg would be cut to match the editor's workprint (A and B rolls with 16mm) and then a print made for TX. The BBC very probably only ever made one print from the neg and it was that print it screened repeatedly. Negs usually ended up untouched in a vault for decades. In general the only negatives that fell to bits were those for Hollywood films where hundreds of prints were made for distribution around the world. It wouldn't have been the camera negative used for hundreds of prints for Hollywood films, a colour reversal inter-negative would have been struck or several for bulk printing. With original Technicolor the originals would have only been used to produce the dye imbibition printing matrices.
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