The Mausoleum Club Forum

Yes, isn't there a contemporary memo from someone reminding directors about the required length of the "black gap"? Not the length. but during the 1960s, directors were instructed to insert two fade-to-black points in each episode to "facilitate Television Enterprises" (i.e. to allow for advert bre...

Strange about editing out fades to black as I have read that B&W Dr Who episodes had fades to black in them so when sold to countries with commercial TV they could fit in advert breaks. The fades to black in 1960s Doctor Who episodes would be down to the studio recording blocks and cut editing tech...

I don't remember the original films being 35mm. I worked in the dubbing projection area at TVC during 1968 and just round the corner were preview theatres. I saw a couple of the first series when they were being shown there and they weren't on 35mm. Also, sometime during the 70's, my old school wan...

The 35mm film prints of Star Trek were indeed physically edited to place the title sequence first. From memory, they were also edited to remove the fades to black at the commercial break points if possible. I think the policy was to make US programming appear more like home grown product in terms of...

It might be the VHF band for the channel at that time.

Generally, series 1 was recorded three days before the episode broadcast. So for example, No.6 "The canteen" was recorded Tuesday 1st April (Studio 5A) and was broadcast 3 days later on the Friday.

As far as I can tell all episodes are 625 line.

My assessment of the Bond blu-rays (up to 1985) is below and unfortunately the look/grade of some of the HD masters is not as good as the equivalent DVD version (Ultimate editions) - resolution aside. Dr. No - same transfer From Russia With Love - same transfer Goldfinger - same transfer Thunderball...

No soundtrack. I think this was pretty much of the era where if they could get away with shooting mute and later lay sound effects, possibly location recorded, then add narration to finish off then it made things a lot easier.

I had the pleasure of transferring some of the film reels of this and at one point I went to the bbc.co.uk archive page where the original programmes can be viewed. I managed to find the episode that related to the rushes I was transferring at that moment so I was able to compare the pushed-in and m...

I wonder what the quality of their 16mm filmed productions will be like. Bog standard old video masters stuck onto disc or decent newer transfers?

Very sad to hear this. He was absolutely superb in the 1967 BBC TV version of Les Miserables, but then he was brilliant in every part he played.

What an unbelievable January this has been.

With some of the comments made in this thread, is it at all surprising how long other ITC series are taking to get the blu-ray treatment?

Mine's arrived and I've had a quick gander at the contents. One slight gripe is that it's been zoomed-in. I was under the impression that the existing 'Doppelganger' prints were 4:3 so it's a shame we've been presented with something that has been made to look MORE like 'JTTFSOTS' when retaining th...

David Boothroyd wrote:Is this the Mark Curry presented show from BBC Childrens in the early 1980s?

No. I think that was about the silent movie era comedies with stars like Harold Lloyd.

Interesting chat folks... a good read.

Are people really watching these? Surely if anyone is a fan they'll have the DVDs by now, as whenever I have accidentally strayed onto this channel when they have been broadcasting an episode the picture quality is dire. I can see it's from the usual masters we are used to except that the image is a...

Synthesis Entertainment, who carried out the HD restoration of Lost In Space, put some work-in-progress comparison footage on YouTube in late 2013. There are sections where they demonstrate how the OAR can be reframed as 1.78:1 - see here: Lost In Space HD Restoration Interesting comparison, thanks...

Excellent! I remember enjoying the Channel 4 showing of this in the 80s.

An image seen from the time of the initial DVD release...

Wow, sorely tempted! The version of the theme tune which has always been used on compilation albums has always been lousy...) Except for "The Music of ITC" Network CD release though which is the original version and nice quality. Lovely to see some of music from these classic shows making it to vin...

Anyone expecting On the Buses is going to be highly disappointed with this film. If, however, you approach it as a Play for Today then you'll be surprised at how effective and powerful both Varney and Diana Coupland's performances are. Certainly made me rethink him as just a low-rent gagster. This ...

From the sleeve notes inside the case... About The Transfer: All episodes of The Sweeney have been newly transferred, graded and painstakingly restored in High Definition from the original 16mm A/B negatives with the exception of Ringer where the negative was not available and the best alternative f...

Mike S wrote:Unbelievable:

Statue of Alan Yentob to be erected on site of 'iconic' ex-BBC fountain

I think we all know what day it is.

I still can't quite believe that after 25 years of working at TVC, after today my ID will no longer get me in the building... Oh well, I have to count myself lucky that I was there all that time and that I started just at the tail end of the old style Beeb, with VT in the basement, Telecine on the 2...

He always came across as a genuinely nice chap. The faulty mic act is a classic.

Finally we have the whole series in HD and of surprisingly good quality despite it all being on one disc. Are we sure these are not SD video files on a blu-ray disc? I thought I'd read somewhere that someone checked the resolution of the files contained therein and there were indeed SD. The fact th...

Richardm wrote:I'll watch Goodbye with interest and I hope, not irritation!

For some reason I can't quite put my finger on, I feel I will be highly irritated by this programme so I doubt I'm actually going to watch it.

As none of the other tele-recordings of similar shows of this period, Escape in the Night, The Jenson Code, Tightrope etc, have any chroma subcarrier I'd say it's highly unlikely that Timeslip does. Also, weren't some of the videotape masters monochrome anyway for this series?

I must say I found the first series of NSY to be first class viewing. Good stories, well scripted and above all well acted. Both leads were very good indeed, particularly John Woodvine.

I see they're on the right now :-) (Just checking if it works)