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Post by simonashby on May 21, 2012 18:55:52 GMT
Now is this the Pilot or the actual 1st episode? Have you been reading this thread? No-one has ever officially said, or even hinted for that matter, that any B/W episode is being colourised.
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Post by simonashby on May 21, 2012 0:27:57 GMT
It would be nice if some more Pertwees could be found on videotape in colour (albeit in the converted NTSC format) Did all the Pertwee era get converted to NTSC, before the Beeb started wiping and reusing the transmission tapes? Yes, they all were - except IOD. Spearhead was supplied on film. There were reports of The Daemons being aired in '91 in colour a while back, but nothing came of it.
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Post by simonashby on May 21, 2012 0:18:55 GMT
Yes he does, but he has said that he is colourising a doctor who episode A wishful mind added the 'episode' part. Babelcolour has never stated that he is recolouring an episode. He may well be, but he has not once said this.
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Post by simonashby on May 20, 2012 13:37:09 GMT
Well if he is patching up ambassadors of death I for one will be disipoimted Why? You make it sound as if you're owed a colourised version of an Unearthly Child... If Ambassadors needs the extra help from him then I will be very pleased that he is doing it.
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Post by simonashby on May 9, 2012 21:20:33 GMT
It looks asiff this is coming out early 2012. Does anyone know in 2011 what format the other episode were going to be in? was it going to be colour recovery or not? We're nearly half way through 2012... It will be a mix of domestic tape colour and CR - we've known this for a long time. Whether patches will need touching up I don't know. Babelcolour has another project aside from MOE 1. It might be for parts of Ambassadors, might not. We can speculate the hell out of it, but the fact is that we will not know until something official is said.
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Post by simonashby on Apr 2, 2012 21:07:07 GMT
The point is, regardless of how apparently unlikely a TR of it turning up is, no-one can definitively say if a TR was made or not.
I don't think we can really put odds on anything turning up at this point now anyway. We have no idea how many copies of anything missing are out there, if any at all, so it's just as likely to turn up as anything else missing in practical terms.
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Post by simonashby on Mar 21, 2012 17:54:28 GMT
However, being a bit of a pessimist about these things, I rather suspect that Jon will get to this guys house on Saturday and either no one will answer the door or a old lady will answer it and have no idea that he's talking about and slam the door in his face. That’s if the house is even there at all. If this person is genuine, you can rub people up the wrong way effectively accusing them of lying like that - even if you don't think it would have that effect. I've seen a similar situation before.
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Post by simonashby on Mar 18, 2012 17:49:28 GMT
Mind you, the original VT would have been somewhere between the two screen grabs in terms of picture zoom. Telecline of the film would have zoomed in somewhat, and then the TR even more so.
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Post by simonashby on Mar 9, 2012 11:11:43 GMT
It was made by ATV, who tended to use a notch filter more so than the BBC did. We can thank the BBC's sloppiness for a colour Are You Being Served pilot, Room at the bottom and so on! The reason I am in this tone is because I think pelhams effort is a damb good try and if you don't like his colourisations you probaly wouldn't like mine. I think you should lay of about the colourisations and not to comment if you don't like it, like people have done before on a prevouis thread called "mind of evil colour tests". Regards Simon You need to learn how to take criticism, not expecting people to tell you everything is perfect. Then again, what people are saying is perfectly right, it's not the place to discuss hand colourised frames.
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Post by simonashby on Mar 8, 2012 22:47:46 GMT
That's just one frame, not a 'scene'. It's enough work to colour a whole scene let alone an episode. I think it also needs to be added that despite the dedicated fans who are there to restore Doctor Who, being fans isn't enough. The only reason why the Restoration Team exists is because the BBC believes that there is a market for it - and will therefore fund it. The Doctor Who market is markedly bigger and little will change that. Mind you, a clean up of the B/W and VidFIRE doesn't seem to be too much to ask, but it all costs money to do this and re-release the DVD - far more than most people would think. Rob Moss: The colourisation IS NOT FLAT I agree with Rob. Whilst a good effort, colourisation in general is very hard. You only have to look at big films like 'It's A Wonderful Life' that have been colourised and it still doesn't look quite 'there'. I don't understand your very defensive tone at all. Seems rather rude.
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Post by simonashby on Mar 7, 2012 20:23:08 GMT
then they may not tolorate the rather poor production values of Timeslip? ...and the relatively poor colourisation that such a low key series is ever likely to get, if at all. After all, Doctor Who can only just barely afford it...
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Post by simonashby on Mar 4, 2012 18:33:21 GMT
I do wonder what might be out there. For example, The Time Meddler prints were of such a poor quality that VidFIRE would not work convincingly. Someone may knowingly hold copies of the story in better condition, but since the BBC holds the story, we may never know about any such copies.
The same goes for any suppressed prints that may be out there, when the BBC only hold stored recordings.
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Post by simonashby on Mar 2, 2012 19:35:41 GMT
The answer is clear: Despite any information there may be about what was sent where, how many this, who got what when etc. - No-one knows. i would say the space pirates.it's my fave DW story. That's just dandy.
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Post by simonashby on Feb 27, 2012 19:57:50 GMT
people are going off the topic anyway on the thread anyway I'd say: Don't encourage this by doing it yourself.
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Post by simonashby on Feb 22, 2012 8:30:53 GMT
Under what circumstances did Ian Levine gain access to purchase copies of Doctor Who episodes in 1978?
I've never ever heard anything more on this, other than he had gained access to prints. I assume this is the first incident of this happening? What about rights issues and so on? I don't want to ask a stupid question, but was Levine the first to do this? Maybe not in regards to DW alone, but any other BBC material.
It's always been a murky picture as far as I was concerned.
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