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Post by Douglas Wulf on Apr 7, 2016 6:03:06 GMT
It was my friend Gordon (Hendry) who recovered the Faceless ones ep 3 and he bought it along with Evil 2, from a car boot sale, so we can't be certain. Wheel 3 is also unlikely as the film collector I got it from (along with The Dominators Ep & Crisis Ep)had them since around 1973. Oh, I fully meant to write Wheel 3, but it came out as Faceless Ones 3 because it is another episode 3 that had been found! Well, the origin of all of the prints that you and Gordon found is an interesting question. I wonder if there would be anything about the leader or the sort of reel or anything of that sort that would provide some indication.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Apr 7, 2016 10:42:49 GMT
I have an example of a Dutch TV station doing this. They were sent some TOTP by the BBC in 1974. They kept the tape a while, and in the 80's, it got transferred to VHS. SERIOUSLY. Here's a bit of it:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvOGdvD7oxAand (after the intro) another:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTAUHKkDXyEIt did happen. Rarely, though as previous posters have said.
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Post by John Wall on May 17, 2016 19:48:04 GMT
Remember that copying a film print involves two steps - positive to negative and then back to positive.
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Post by brianfretwell on Jun 6, 2016 12:11:51 GMT
You could telecine from a negative though, but reversal processing of B&W stock though possible wouldn't give very good results as it could be of high contrast.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jun 6, 2016 12:31:08 GMT
I've heard of news footage being developed negatives telecined & electronically reversed to save time.
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Post by Ace St.John on Jun 24, 2016 22:39:26 GMT
There were already a few public communications sattelites around then and already by then there was military satellites - some obviously top secret. Surely the chance of original broadcasts being relayed from across the world and taped or telerecorded across the globe is not too far fetched. Recording the BBC TV news could have been of interest to many organizations. As already mentioned on this forum all they had to do was leave the tape running a bit longer and we might have a live recording of a classic who episode such as Mission to the Unknown in broadcast live quality waiting to be discovered in a video or film vault somewhere on the planet - perhaps even digitized into a computer sysytem by now???
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Post by Ed Brown on Feb 21, 2017 15:56:36 GMT
It's really surprising so few film prints showed from the first year. No. If you think about it, you'll remember that in the years we are discussing, i.e. 1963-64, even the BBC was only able to produce suppressed-field film recordings. The technical quality of the picture when such a print is played is greatly inferior to the later film recordings which became possible after 1966, which did not involve discarding 50 percent of the picture information. The picture quality of a skip-field film print is so poor that tv stations rushed to welcome the new stored-field prints that became available from 1966 on. Hardly surprising that skip-field prints were discarded (junked) early on, given that they were so much poorer than subsequent material. I cannot imagine any tv station filling its limited shelf space with skip-field prints that the station manager was never going to re-broadcast, when they could use that space to store a much better product which they could re-use. Hardly surprising then that even the BBC was not hanging on to skip-field prints, given their poorer picture quality.
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