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Post by ethantyler on Oct 8, 2005 23:34:39 GMT
I gather this episode is held on Digibetacam, which I have three questions about:
1. Is this a videotape?
2. Is the episode fullscreen and as broadcast or is it a recording of the episode playing on a television?
3. How did it it come to be on this format?
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Post by Laurence Piper on Oct 9, 2005 0:16:27 GMT
Digibeta is a standard broadcast tape format (and has been for many years). Lots of material is on stored on this format. How did the Z-Cars ep get onto it? They chose to transfer it to this format from the T/R when it was recovered, i'd imagine.
The episode is full-screen and as originally transmitted in as much as ANY T/R is (which is a film of a monitor screen, after all). The original recording would have been on 405 line VT, which obviously no longer exists.
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Post by ethantyler on Oct 9, 2005 1:05:29 GMT
Thanks for the explanation, Laurence.
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Post by andrew martin on Oct 9, 2005 8:49:14 GMT
The episode was in fact originally broadcast live, as with the vast majority of the original run of "Z Cars" in 1962-65. All these live episodes (with the possible exception of one ("Somebody...Help") where the content mean it was not considered exportable) were telerecorded onto 16mm film for BBC Transcription Unit/Enterprises for foreign sales, and also for repeat - "Z Cars" got regular and extensive repeats on Sunday afternoons from late 1962 right through to December 1965 (I believe some later (1965) episodes were also recorded onto VT for repeat). As with other recent recoveries via private collectors, the BBC was able to borrow the film recording of "Appearance in Court" and make a digibeta copy, this format indeed being the standard tape medium used by the BBC these days.
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