Wow! I did not know that videotape technology was that old and mature by the
early 60s. Thank you, Sonny.
Best regards,
Peter S
On Jun 22, 2022, at 6:39 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It’s not film, it’s videotape. It probably has been enhanced with modern
techniques. If you cruise around on YouTube, you can see the same broadcast
with less contrast.
Quad videotape was quite a mature process by then.
SonC
On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 4:53 AM Peter J Stevens <fritzj9@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:fritzj9@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Good morning and thank you, Sonny. I’ll go explore what you’ve said. Below is
the best and quickest available example of the effect/look that caught my
attention.
Mr Cronkite stands out so distinctly from the background and has a “glow”
that I haven’t seen in other B&W films from other eras. I’m not saying that
Uncle Walter was divinely-touched, though his presence on the national scene
is missed in my opinion. :)
Best regards,
Peter S.
Walter Cronkite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PXORQE5-CY ;
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PXORQE5-CY>
On Jun 21, 2022, at 7:04 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:sonc.hegr@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
The effect you're describing is probably due to scanning the old film with a
Rank Cintel vs the original practice of rolling the film through a film
chain.
Some early film records also were done as kinescopes, (shot right off a TV
picture tube) with resulting poor reproduction.
The film chain is simply a projector shooting via mirrors to a TV camera,
while the Rank scans each image for much higher quality reproduction.
Scanning is pretty much the way film is done now if commercial or movie
production because post is so much easier and better electronically.
Also, no one uses film for TV news anymore.
Regards,
Sonny
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 5:14 AM Peter J Stevens <fritzj9@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:fritzj9@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Thanks very much, Sonny, Aram, Frank, and David, for your comments and
information. After all these years I have an answer. Thank you! :)
There’s another “look” from a film product that I’ve also wondered about but
I’ll have to come back later with a link or two showing it. Before that I
can say that it was a “look” that I saw and still see in late 1950s to
mid-1960s black and white news footage from TV broadcasts. There was / is a
difference in the visual experience - almost a 3D and luminosity that I
haven’t seen in any other black & white moving film footage, be it a
Hollywood theatrical-released movie or a regular black & white TV program.
I don’t know whether it was because of film-stock, or broadcast electronics,
or TV set technology as I have no knowledge of moving film at all.
Now that I’m writing it I recall specifically the CBS footage of Walter
Cronkite in the early 1960s having that “look” and the coverage of President
Kennedy’s assassination really shows that exceptional luminosity.
As I said I’ll go find some footage and the URL and come back; but thanks
again for helping me with the Ektachrome call.
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