Post by garygraham on Dec 9, 2018 4:32:16 GMT
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I DO love the series, I really do, but....
What was the continuity man doing in one of my favourite episodes, "Murdersville"? Hilarious how Mrs Peel's clothes keep changing while she and her companion are driving! Mind you, I saw it in monochrome when it was first shown, so we didn't notice it then.
Not actually a continuity error I think (and something that obviously was not so called restored) This appears to be a colour separation overlay fault found on early colour productions ..you may have heard of 'green screen' today which they use to combine two pictures say a background road and the inside of a car.. well in the early days of colour they used a blue screen due to the limitations of the technology....blue screen setting was very time consuming (time not always available on fast moving TV shows) the shade of blue had to be absolutely perfect in every way and even the light hitting it had to be perfectly set- otherwise it would either produce a blue fuzz at the edge of the combining pictures (seen on old Star Trek prints) or would cause certain colours to bleed and mix to another shade ..
So although I think Emma was actually wearing the same colour outfit throught, it came out a different hue when they did a studio process shot.
..Very easy (in restoration terms)to rectify these days and makes you wonder about a so called restoration unlike Star Trek which now looks like it's from the 21st Century.
It looks like the wardrobe department messed up by putting her in blue which would have become transparent in the bluescreen driving shot. So did they changed her into an identical but green tracksuit for that shot? Or is it as you say, a colour cast which is a consequence of the special effect process?
A yellow background was used for film sometimes until the 1960s. On Mary Poppins and one of the first examples seems to be in MGM's On The Town, which has a rather bad effect in one scene.
Some of the ITC series seem to have used front projection instead. Department S being one.