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<DIV>exactly,</DIV>
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<DIV>I know its not always possible to get the correct items, or other things
historically correct and then there are other things like mis-communication with
the director</DIV>
<DIV>time constraints or last minute bungles...it all depends a lot on the time
allowed on set to "get it right", as well as budgetary constraints as
well.</DIV>
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<DIV>The thing is, for example with the cameras...if you couldnt obtain any
correct cameras for the australian scene and make it "period accurate", in my
opinion they should just shot the cameras from behind as silloheuttes
or just had the camera side of the studio in darkness with a few red lights
visible, so it wasnt apparent it wasnt correct..but still didnt destroy the
scene. </DIV>
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<DIV>It seems the interview scenes with the TK44's were well researched and they
were able to get correct cameras...and as such they used it well to their
advantage in many close ups etc. Yet the australian scenes dont seem
researched at all, despite only taking me seconds of googling to find those
photos and other historical clues.</DIV>
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<DIV>The risk is with any historical re-creation...is if you dont pay attention
to the details..what you are presenting as historic will often become fact later
on down the track some people...and if you get it very wrong...then it risks
becoming fact</DIV>
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<DIV>Classic example was a nostalgic special on a talent show we had in oz, a
vlack and white clip was playing and the voiceover was discussing the arrival of
color, as the voiceover said the word color, a wipe went over the screen to
color, basically making out this was the moment that station switched to color
and this was the show that was chosen to do it. Actual fact this segment
was shot around 4 years after color and was color the whole way through.
To this day i get many people believing this was historical footage of the
moment color was switched on,,,,</DIV>
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<DIV>to an earlier question about color in australia</DIV>
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<DIV>We were planning to go to color for a long time, at one point it was
beleived we were to switch the same time as england in around 68.69 and some
stations even began shooting promos on color film in readiness, but the
goovernment at the time kept putting it off and off, we certainly did some
specials for the US and Britain in color in the early 70's, I beleive channel 9
in melbourne did this, and they were an all "bosch fernseh" camera station for
color using the KCU-40 which served them until about 1993 ! I'm
pretty sure also by the 70's most telecine and video equipment was color
capable, often playing to air but with the color removed....i have heard storys
some programs were airing in color prior to 1975, but technically they werent
really allowed to be doing this.</DIV>
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<DIV>James</DIV>
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<A title=COURYHOUSE@aol.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:41
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [QuadList] frost nixon
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<DIV><FONT size=2 PTSIZE="10">James - I had someone making a
film needed some WW2 electronics - some one had fixed
him up with some 'nam era stuff... I practically
had to beat him to get him to understand that SOME people will
notice the difference.... </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Yep--- if you are going to do it... do it right
as it might be around a long time to haunt ya!.</DIV>
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<DIV>Ed#<FONT size=2 PTSIZE="10"></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 PTSIZE="10"> </DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 6/9/2010 8:15:45 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
james@oldtvgear.com writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>I know
most of the public wont notice or probably care but when your making
<BR>historical films based on fact, you should make it as accurate as
<BR>possible... wasnt it someones job to research all
this?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT>
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