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John Allain wrote: <snip> why was the print "kodachromed?" or red? did the photos get taken off a print, or did someone actually dub a print this bad to tape or digital and broadcast it? as horrible as old 70's stuff is, usually the awful colors are correct on the tapes as they dont fade, even if they look like hell when played back. this looks like the source is from a kodachrome print that has shifted all red. I skipped forward to see if it got better or if the lighting was responsible, but it looks like the color is from film. jim

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 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

On 2/20/2006 at 9:37 AM jim stephens wrote: This was the actual lighting done on the filming--I recall it quite well. One of the more common techniques in the "disco era" of TV and not uncommon even today--only the color has changed. Consider the blue, blue, blue lab lighting of CSI, for example. That being said, the technical experts probably didn't consider how terrible a choice of red for work lighting would be as a practical matter. On the other hand, I suppose it would have been easier on the makeup department as red lighting tends to hide facial blemishes! Cheers, Chuck

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