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Post by davemachin on Jan 4, 2010 16:57:29 GMT
The Quatermass serials were only made in black and white, Philip. So they would have to be coloured artificially from scratch and wouldn't be a good idea I don't think. What is talked about here is restoring colour to programmes which only exist in black and white by extracting the colour signal still present in these recordings.
Seems I missed something special Laurence, at the missing believed wiped last year. I would love to have seen the LNLU in colour but I'm glad they are looking to such things to restore. I plan to go this year though.
Dave
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Post by Philip Hindley on Jan 4, 2010 18:37:42 GMT
Yes I know they were done in b/w but I suppose the BBC would not wish to spend money on the other colorisation process.... ah well I can keep hoping, mind you they must have spent quite a bit on restoring QUATERMASS AND THE PIT to its former glory.
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Post by John Wall on Jan 4, 2010 22:54:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2010 14:44:52 GMT
Yes, the DVD release contains stunningly good restorations of the episodes (particularly of Pit) compared to the copies previously existing. So it's difficult to know how it would be possible to make them much better than they already are (not much, I don't think) although i'd draw the line at artificially colouring something that was made in b/w originally!
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Post by davemachin on Jan 5, 2010 17:49:03 GMT
The Quatermass set is an essential buy for anyone into quality television drama. The price is worth it for Pit alone, which looks so good you can almost believe it's from videotape. I hope the rumoured release of 1984 all restored and crisp finally happens as this is another important one that should be seen by a wider audience again. Imagine that and a colour recovery VidFired Sex Olympics on the dvd shelves. Makes you drool, doesn't it!
Dave
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Post by John Wall on Jan 5, 2010 20:19:37 GMT
With Big Brother coming to an end it would be good for Auntie to show a colour recovered YOTSO to demonstrate that Nigel Kneale got there first again !
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Post by Simon Vaughan - Archivist APTS on Jan 7, 2010 12:38:37 GMT
Have recently been talking to a member of the colour recovery team about possible colour recovery material and the b/w telerecordings of the experimental NTSC adapted system trialed by the BBC in the 1950's is a possible for inclusion. It needs checking, but if the chroma dots are present we might yet get the chance to see British NTSC colour from 50+ years ago!
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Post by John Wall on Jan 7, 2010 15:16:35 GMT
Have recently been talking to a member of the colour recovery team about possible colour recovery material and the b/w telerecordings of the experimental NTSC adapted system trialed by the BBC in the 1950's is a possible for inclusion. It needs checking, but if the chroma dots are present we might yet get the chance to see British NTSC colour from 50+ years ago! That's fascinating:-) Do we know when the notch filter was introduced to the telerecording process ?
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Post by Philip Hindley on Jan 9, 2010 15:35:57 GMT
Wow colour from the 50s cant wait just shows anythings possible these days.
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Post by garrettgilchrist on Jan 12, 2010 9:13:00 GMT
Only seen it on a low quality online video, but wow - really, really impressive. The most impressive pure colour recovery I've seen. Richard Russell deserves several medials.
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Post by davemachin on Jan 12, 2010 17:02:20 GMT
Have recently been talking to a member of the colour recovery team about possible colour recovery material and the b/w telerecordings of the experimental NTSC adapted system trialed by the BBC in the 1950's is a possible for inclusion. It needs checking, but if the chroma dots are present we might yet get the chance to see British NTSC colour from 50+ years ago! Is this the one posted on Youtube with Sylvia Peters and Cy Grant, Simon? I am bemused the BBC bothered to record a colour test in the first place but only in black and white! What was that all about then? Anyway, I would be glad to see this little piece of history in colour again and hopefully VidFired. I did read that a different process from the one used on Are You Being Served would have to be invented to extract colour from an NTSC film though. Is this true? Dave
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Post by John Wall on Jan 13, 2010 21:58:33 GMT
Wow colour from the 50s cant wait just shows anythings possible these days. I've been in contact with Richard Russell. He's got a website: www.rtrussell.co.uk/ - which is full of interesting things related to BBC Basic. He tells me that his Colour Recovery process will only work with PAL signals as it relies on the phase alternation from line to line. He also advised that he monitors this forum periodically and tried to join but never received a confirmation email. Does anybody know if there's a been a glitch ?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2010 13:10:56 GMT
Should be relatively easy to join, John. Tell Richard to contact me if the problem persists as we'd all be very pleased to have his contributions to the forum!
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