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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Great YouTube clip of The Animals, Chris (memories
of my youth!) - but disappointing too as this was surely from 16mm as
it has all the hallmarks of film (dirt, 25Hz temporal resolution)
and no signs of being a kinescope/telerecording (no image orthicon
artefacts, for example).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>There are so many proponents of celluloid as a
medium but I've always hoped that one day (maybe when we we've ditched
interlace) humanity will finally shake off "the dirty window" on reality it
offers. Because there was nothing else for decades we became culturally
accustomed to image instability, dirt and the lo-fi way it portrays
motion. The first two can be corrected with modern digital techniques but
you can't recover the information thrown away by only taking 24 or 25 pictures a
second; to deliberately apply this effect to video material for artistic
effect has always struck me as a bit bonkers - and really annoys me when, having
settled into watching a video-shot programme which has been given the film
treatment, a late-edit drop-in shot with full motion resolution sticks out like
a sore thumb.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In 50Hz territories at least we have been spared
the horrors of 3:2 pull-down!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>To me - as a kid, and now (in my 50s) - the magic
of videotape is in its fidelity; so much of the allure of that YouTube clip of
the RCA Pavilion from '65 is surely because it has full motion
resolution. I, for one, appreciate documentary producers who "go the extra
mile" to source the video archive when a kinescope copy is more
easily to hand - think the Cronkite announcement of JFK's death; video of
it is out there but you'll often get the kinescope.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Steve</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:22:29 +1000<BR>From: "Chris Patten" <<A
href="mailto:cfpatten@tpg.com.au">cfpatten@tpg.com.au</A>><BR>To: "Quad List"
<<A
href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</A>><BR>Subject:
Re: [QuadList] tk60 with built in 16mm... oh yea I
want<BR>one!<BR>Message-ID: <<A
href="mailto:C14883E0896749A69F3A7312E498C470@your9e8503f508">C14883E0896749A69F3A7312E498C470@your9e8503f508</A>><BR>Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<BR><BR>G'day <BR><BR>I worked on the Intertel
OB for the Richmond Jazz Festival in London in 1965, we attached the Gemini
system to our Marconi MkIV cameras. We were hired by the US program
Shindig:<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/Richmond-65.html">http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/Richmond-65.html</A><BR><BR>There
are clips on Youtube, but they are from the videotape not the 16mm
film:<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA3wXOKlddU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA3wXOKlddU</A><BR><BR>It
was a great three day shoot.<BR><BR>Cheers<BR><BR>Chris
Patten<BR>Sydney<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>