20 Feb
2006
20 Feb
'06
1:15 p.m.
John Allain wrote:
I have betamax from whatever year was the first year that such was
available,
probably late 76 or early 77. Those tapes have lots of video tape
degradation,
but they don't get red over time. Film does.
this seems to be a first generation capture off of film stock, or
someone scanned
why was the
print ...red? ... ... ...
Dude, home videotaping was rare even in 1976.
While the control room was supposedly red-lit,
alot of the images on the site show additional
fade to red from either off-screen still or motion filming.
from film transparency, which would date the film
transfer to a recent
encounter of
the film with the scanning.
what I find unusual is that this seems not to be a capture off network
tv. someone
must have a film copy of this that was not properly stored. A lot of
the old series
that are currently broadcast were dubbed in the 80's and therefor are
subject
to video degradation artifacts. Also a studio which has a master print
would
have negative stock that could be compensated before a print is
distributed if
made recently and it would not have this amount of red shift in only a
few years.
I have several copies of 16mm Bonanza episodes made in the 70's for
distribution
in Brazil (portugese, puts a whole different spin on Hoss, but that's
another story)
which don't have this amount of shift.
Jim