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Date Posted: 12:57:23 06/12/03 Thu
Author: Geoff
Author Host/IP: launceston-atm.vic-remote.bigpond.net.au / 61.9.128.173
Subject: Re: Sponsors logos
In reply to: Joe (tv king) 's message, "Re: Sponsors logos" on 02:47:44 06/11/03 Wed

Well... I kept checking to see if you would ever respond to this thread! LOL. Actually, speaking of Jimmy Stewart, I wrote to him in 1994 telling him how much I apreciated his work and how so many of his movies mean the world to me. He wrote back on a blank white postcard, scrawled in his own inimitable handwriting (with the words James Stewart printed at the top). He thanked me and told me how much it meant to hear something like that. I mentioned how I too hated the colorization of "It's A Wonderful Life" and his response was "Don't worry, we may get something done on Colorization". Of course he passed away in 1997 aged 89 and in fact the process did seem to run out of steam for a while, but is now making an emergence.
This was discussed a while back and apparently a company called Dynacs Digital Studios has colorized many programs in the Columbia TV vaults. For instance, they have done the inventory of the first two seasons of "Bewitched" and the first season of "I Dream Of Jeannie". I have read that the process is now technically superior to anyhting that Ted Turner propagated in the 1980s. I have heard that the "Bewitched" episodes are superb. I actually have the Colorized Pilot of "Jeannie" in my collection and it is really hard to fault the artistry. Two minor points of contention for me, being that they forgot to add the subtitles when Jeannie is speaking Persian at the beginning of the show when Tony Nelson uncorks her bottle.
Also, they used (as a reference) a few Color episodes and decided that Tony's Airforce Jumpsuit that he is wearing when his capsule crashlands on the island in the South Pacific, is orange. So they colorized his jumpsuit Orange for continuity sake I suppose. Only problem is, I have a Color Plate of that scene, and his jumpsuit is actually Blue!! Still, aside from that...

With regards to digital remastering, I am all for it if it improves the print quality, but you are right that it is aesthetically unappealing and doesn't look like motion picture film, simply because of the technique of striking new video prints from the original negatives, and the technology used in the process. Very few stations now in Australia run old shows (or films for that matter) as an actual Film print. Most stations these days are supplied with video masters with much improved quality. Telecine machines now run most programming which is transferred to tape for airing, be it 1" reel to reel, U-Matic or other used formats. I predict that within 10 years, DVD will have won the tape vs. digital war and that VHS cassttes will go the way of Betamax and Vinyl LPs.

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