16mm Print - "Happy Days"

Telecine transfer on my home built system of the opening titles to Happy Days, this was from a tv print that had travelled all around australia during 1982 from regional station to another, the can had heaps of stickers of each station on it with a usage log at every station it had been shown at, with remarks on how it was wearing each time.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• happy
• days
• tv
• classic
• australian
• history
• sitcom
• american
• fonz

[deepeemark]

Looks sharper than what they are currently airing in Australia. The current copy looks like a clean 35mm print, but transferred to SD video, then blown up to 14.9. Very soft - almost unwatchable.

[gspot65hotmaildotcom]

@Jh49er lol it's not like they used a microphone to broadcast the sound, a telecine (what the poster used) had a direct transfer from the print (optical or magnetic) to the broadcast equipment or to a videorecoder. And even in the 7Oies the broacast equipment was mostly video tape (Reel-to-reel or Umatic in the early 7ies). In most cases a movieprint would be copied to a video tape first before it was aired.

[CaligulosQuixotic]

This is a great show.

[Jh49er]

I remember watching certain reruns in the mid to late 70s on certain channels that were 16 MM prints and if you listened close while watching you could hear the projector running!!!

[Jh49er]

These 16mm prints were common back in the day we got used to them.

I remember when WLVI ch 56 from Boston began showing restored prints of the Brady Bunch instead of 16mm prints it was like night & day

[peecee1384]

Vale Tom Bosley.

[RecordCouncil]

That is a damn sight cleaner than many of the Australian TV prints I have had owned. Much more colour too!

[jcice3]

As a kid, this is pretty much how I remember the picture quality of most American TV shows that were screened on our local Canadian TV stations well into the 1980s (aside from the CBC) - I guess we're spoiled here in the HDTV era.