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Post by simonashby on Jan 20, 2011 18:55:18 GMT
There are instances of that, yes. That's interesting. I thought the tapes had to be wiped first, or was that a procedure that wasn't always followed, like turning off chroma on TR's?
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Post by simonashby on Jan 17, 2011 20:02:30 GMT
Mind of Evil will be a tricky one. Perhaps we'll get something similar to the 2003 Ambassadors of Death VHS release. Invasion of the Dinosaurs looks a lot more positive. Not only have they got a 16mm film print of episode one that certainly contains something of the required colour sub-carrier, but they've also got a copy of the original film sequences (prior to telecine). Okay, the film sequences are only monochrome, but you'd have thought that the results of combining them with the recovered chroma signal could be rather nice. I don't understand why people keep speculating that some episodes may only be released in B/W! It will happen - it's obvious. Overall, MOE has a decent amount of colour, which would extremely help restoration if a full result couldn't be extracted. The process is also being improved all the time. Part 1 can be colourised like POTD 3 when the exchange rate is a bit better. It will probably delay the release a bit, and I expect it may well be one of the last to come out, but there is no way they'd just leave bits in B/W, when they are so close! As for Invasion, the film would have to be cropped and distorted in order to fit the colour signal, which would probably not be worth it.
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Post by simonashby on Jan 15, 2011 23:57:16 GMT
The TOTP episode used to test colour recovery exists both on TR and Tape. But the only the first half of the tape exists.
'The Little Black Bag' episode from OOTU only exists in bits.
I'm sure many other programmes exist in this way - but why? Is it just one of the mysteries of the pre-1978 archiving process, or are there explanations?
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Post by simonashby on Jan 15, 2011 23:31:42 GMT
What is the position re Ambassadors of Death being recolourised. Presume episode 1 is ok as episode 5 and 6 has been re-colourised they don't present a problem. Is episode 4 problematic due to the effect of colour strobing. Do episodes 2, 3 and 7 constitute a problem at all? The problems with the off-air tapes shouldn't be an issue anymore. The remaining episodes contain chromadots, which will lead to restoration.
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Post by simonashby on Jan 11, 2011 17:43:46 GMT
Would there be any use for Chroma-dots when restoring The Daemons and Terror of the Autons?
If you had a good copy like AYBS?, would that possibly provide a better result than a colour overlay? Would it be easier? Is it something worth testing out to see?
This is assuming that some of these prints possess the info.
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Post by simonashby on Sept 16, 2010 22:53:58 GMT
The Pertwees were indeed still being sold in the early 1990s to USA PBS channels - KCET in LA for instance - as well as to the SciFi channel on cable. It's remotely possible that the station you saw was still using the old colour tapes that had been in circulation since 1972 rather than using the 'new' b/w copies supplied by the BBC. But after nearly 20 years of use those tapes couldn't have been in very good condition! Even if you did find a TV Guide listing for that time, would it specify if it was in colour or b/w ? Jon This is all very fascinating! Surely there will be documentation of stations that aired 'The Daemons' at the BBC in 1991. Surely it's just a case of the RT getting the documents and phoning the stations?
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Post by simonashby on Sept 3, 2010 16:38:19 GMT
I've only just registered, but thanks for the replies!
Interesting about the digital films being telerecorded. What exactly do they do?
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