Could The Silurians be a candidate for chroma dot recovery?

[mattholloway]

I am a long time reader and first time poster.

Seeing the recent releases of complete classic Doctor Who seasons on Blu-Ray and the recent release of Jon Pertwee's Season 10, i am now hopeful that we may get a release of Season 7 in the near future.

I was recently watching The Silurians and noticed that the colour appears to be a lower quality than many of the other restored serials.

I was wondering if The Silurians could be subject to the chroma dot recovery process. I am aware that some of the black and white telerecordings did not have adequate chroma dot information in order for this process to be utilised, as such i am wondering if anyone knows whether this process could/would be used on the existing 16mm black and white telerecordings for any future release of the serial.

 

[julianbotting]

I’m sure the restoration team would have looked at this , if the chroma dot recovery could have been used I’m sure they would have done so ??

[martinjwills]

The colour restoration of the early colour release serials was done before chroma dot recovery was availiable, they were doing it on the stories that only had Black & White, or the colour banding fault from the betamax recordings. im sure a overlay process could be used on the serials where the original colour restoration is overlaid with the chroma dot recovery, a similar method has been used with a high res B&W recording and a lower res colour recordning, i think its The Time Monster Ep 6 from memory. Info on this link missingepisodes.blogspot.com/p/colour.html

[John Bowman]

It also boils down to the age-old thing of money and whether anyone is willing to stump up the necessary cash.

[brianfretwell]

Maybe, if there is a Blu Ray set, the money could be found.