Colour Silurian Overlay: How they Restored Doctor Who and the Silurians

[johneymute]

this is mind blowing!!!!

[SecretTimeWarp]

This was restored to color.... Planet Of The Daleks 3 was restored to color.... Invasion Of The Dinosaurs 1 was restored to color..... is it really going to be that long before all of Jon Pertwee is in color once more? :-) (In fact... I believe "Ambassadors Of Death" has ALREADY been restored, and is just awaiting release??)

[johnxgin1]

@SecretTimeWarp well episode 1 of invasion of the dinosaurs was not of dvd quality with the chroma dots.i'm really impressed but it needs more work on it like computer colourization if it was cheaper.

[johnxgin1]

i hope they do a colour restoration on Timeslip(1970)

[Thermodynamic]

It'd be cool if they did the Chromadot color recovery process and blend it with the existing colorization process (ala "Planet of the Daleks" ep 3...)

[MrJacMac1986]

I miss the videotape look.Almost everything now is digital filmizing.

[johnxgin1]

@MrJacMac1986 they did use the vidFIRE process.it's a software used to bring back the videolook to telerecordings.

[DuplicatedOnce]

0:46

WTTW rocks

[DWhoFan2011]

I HAVE THAT VIDEO XD

[retrovideofestival]

The made a mistake - the U.S. Color tapes were not wiped until late 1978/Early 1979, not 1976.

[farmerne]

This is fascinating! Thanks for posting!

[brunster64]

Enjoyed watching, thanks for posting :)

[sdingeswho]

(Continued from earlier post) --- And finally, in light of what I've been saying, there's something so "right" about the very pinnacle of modern computer science being used to make sure that we can now have the closest-to-the-original view of something that was " *low*-tech", to begin with, even in its own time! It's like using a TARDIS to restore a beloved old Model T Ford :-D ! Pertwee's Doctor would've appreciated it in that way, too, no doubt, given his love of old Earth cars :-) .

[sdingeswho]

(Continued from earlier post) ---: Yes, I'm a "Yank", and, for me, a large portion of the charm of DW is the contrast between what, to "us", are incredibly cheesey and obviously low-budget production-values, and the very *good* acting (though naturally it's "campy") and scripts. Where it really counts (story and acting) Doctor Who "had it", always, and technical finesse be damned LOL! I must continue this, again (wordy bastard that I am) . . .

[sdingeswho]

Fascinating stuff, for several reasons (thank you *so* much, Timelord6661 !) ! First of all: Wow! Somebody, apparently in Chicago, had their *own* VCR in *1976*? Are you kidding me? :-D (that was "big money" to have one, back then, kids --- my high school in Oklahoma had one around that time, 3/4 ", I think). Secondly, that bit about correcting for the distortion produced by filming a TV screen --- tricky! (I'll have to continue this in another post, because I'm "running long already)

[masterstarfox]

it's very interesting.that also goes for multicolourisation(planet of the daleks)



[masterstarfox]

there were some itv shows like coranation street on the buses and timeslip had episodes recorded in black and white because of a strike from 1970 to 1971 called "The Colour Strike'.

[ryanbrownnew]

shame after all that its so boring to watch.

[Timelord6661]

@ryanbrownnew

Completely disagree

[uncled39]

@ryanbrownnew It is very interesting, maybe you just didn't understand it.

[randomdave30]

Would have been better if the BBC had kept the original videos!

[Timelord6661]

@randomdave30

Indeed, the BBC are kicking themselves now, but what ifing is pointless, i'm just glad they were able to restore it :).

[ludvan64]

This is typical of the BBC penny pinching. BBC produces wonderful programmes, then wipes them, because the old video tapes were expensive. Look at early B&W Top of the Pops, and their on scratchy film. Where as ITV's Ready Steady Go is still on tape. Now it's costing the BBC, time and money to get back what they could have had if they valued the great stuff they produce without the extra expense..The BBC even wiped Beatles audio tapes. Gems lost forever, for the sake of a few quid. Daft.

[psycoticbastard]

very clever

[critic189]

i kind of like jon pertwee episodes on black and white16mm film recording

[Timelord6661]

yup same, I don't like video tape neither did the Doctor Who Production really that's why I think the look of spearheads from space is a lot better than the rest of them, the problem was it was expensive :S

[masterawesomeish]

@Timelord6661 I watched 'Spearheads from Space' when I was a kid, Because of the cinematic techniques involved with single camera on film, it made Dr. Who all the more awesome.

[powerhousechipmunk23]

One of the most under-rated Doctor Who stories

[critic189]

i hopr they do this with ambassodors of death

[jerryaltman]

How they were able to print a vide into 16mm film with such quality decades ago??????

Vintage recording from video to film was bad, loosing many details and creating a fuzy image, as far as I know.

[dolphin8b]

Dr who and the silurians was recoreded by BBC enteprises in 1970 on two formats...PAL to NTSC colour videotapes..(one broadcast in the USA in 1976 recorded on home video cassette tape) and secondly as a 16mm Film Recording (Telerecording/Kinescope) this was done on a Marconi rapid pulldown film recorder used mainly after 1965. This machine gave excellent results...earlier film recording machines gave sometimes indifferent results because it is hard to synchronise video fields to film.

[NotATube]

Only problem is that the "wipes" demonstrating the results of the VidFire processing (to restore the 50 fields/second video look) don't show up properly here, because YouTube itself only shows 30 frames/second.

[NotATube]

Otherwise, this is pretty cool :-)

[TheFourthDr]

great find, this is indeed very interesting